One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.

House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.

The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke

He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.

How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII

No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.

Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.

Godliness with contentment is rare.

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance of the image.

Who can judge another man's suffering?

Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.

I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries.

To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.

Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists.

It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women, I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.