My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.

Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.

If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.

Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

Out there is nothing but possibilities.

Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

They sat a moment in embrace of silent mutual comfort, which was, she often thought, the reward of those long married.

Our children belong to God. We're only given them on loan from heaven. Sometimes God calls them home sooner tan we expected.

Love is what freed me from the cell of my selfishness.

The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.

Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.

Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

When somebody you've known for 20 years, and with whom you have a full context, winks at you or whatever, it can be huge. I think in a sense what you're trying to re-create in fiction is that.

Do not expect to grow in holiness if you spend little time alone with God and do not take His Word seriously.

The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.