Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Statistics are the heart of democracy.

The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

Babies cry at birth because it is the first time they experience separation from love.

Don't you worry child see heaven's got a plan for you

The gospel is the grace of mercy.

You won't get love from a child if you don't give love.

The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'

I always like to try to bring whatever I can to what is on the page, so I like to find as much dimension as I can, in each role.

It is hard to learn when we think we know something.

The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more you get.

The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.

I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.