Statistics are the heart of democracy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It matters not what you fight but what you fight for.

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

I've been an actor since I was a kid.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

Each dot: the center of a circle without circumference...

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and Im willing to do without until I get it.

If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

I want to be in places I've never been before.

Most women are introspective: "Am I in love? Am I emotionally and creatively fulfilled?" Most men are outrospective: "Did my team win? How's my car?"