The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

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.

In war, love is a luxury. It comes at a high price... This brand of marriage, I guess, takes steady nerves.

If you dwell on the negatives, any life can be terrible, regardless of its circumstances.

The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will.

Remember, before they promoted to the chair of CEO, they were the best employees of their companies.

Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

It's so fun to play something that feels reckless - not all the time, but I really must be acting out something that I can't do in real life.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.

You don't want to look too far ahead or get too excited about anything, so I just want to keep doing what I've been doing.