The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.

Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.

Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives.

Women speak in the superlative.

Lesson one: expect to get screwed over for the convenience of others on a regular basis.

Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.

I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.

I am personally open - after all that has happened and after ten years in that probationary status where all they have is a permit, I personally am open to allowing people to apply for a green card.

Can we become other than what we are?

My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.