The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

We are the hero of our own story.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

They say you can take someone who was born in Africa out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of someone born there....

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.

Each breath I breathe is one more chance to share my love with those around me.

God made all pleasures innocent.

I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty.

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.