Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

I've always been a student of this life, not a teacher. More of a sponge than a fountain.

By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good.

Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we are all connected.

The world you once knew is no more for you.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?

The sooner that little so-and-so goes to rugby league, the better it will be for us.

If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.

The United States of America needs to begin to exercise strong leadership to protect the vulnerable citizens and over 100,000 children in Aleppo.