Religious people are now finding that the First Amendment is being used to herd them into a social ghetto, separated and walled off from public participation.

God has virtually been made an illegal subject in that state institution most devoted to the shaping of the minds and values of our people - the public schools.

The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.

Religious people, in the name of the Constitution, are increasingly being shoved to the back of the social bus.

I looked to the ceiling and told God, “God, next time I want an adventure, strike me with lightning. You have my permission.

All statistics have outliers.

When you are able to love yourself deeply, you can be kind to others.

See appendix A for a proof that Winston Churchill was a carrot.

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

I've always wanted to act.