The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.

Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier.

I'm not all you need, and I don't even want to be. I just want to love you, for the rest of my life, and as long as you let me do that, we'll be okay.

You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

I think as long as the standard of quality, the story-telling, film-making, acting etc. etc. remains consistent, then you've got a good change of making a decent anthology.

Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.