Space is a precious thing to waste. You don't want to fill your house with anything that doesn't directly add to your happiness.

Before I can say anything else, he steps forward and takes my face in his hands. Then he's kissing me one last time.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory.

I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot.

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

as I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and provide information about Parliament and how it functions.

You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

People don't talk to me on airplanes.

Even my agents say, 'We don't know what this business is anymore.'