On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed.

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.

This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.

Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and more rarely sustained contemplation.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq.

This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.

The real dance is within; it is within your mind. Everything is inside your mind. God is inside your mind.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.