Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

Never try to wear a hat that has more character than you do.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

You can love completely without complete understanding.

I see the world, it makes me puke, But then I look at you and know, that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.

I wondered whether water is a mirror for our darker emotions as much as it is an engine for our happiness. Water quiets all the noise, all the distractions, and connects you to your own thoughts.

I think when you're winning, your uniforms are cool.

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.