The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.

It was a small town: Ferguson, Ohio. When you entered there was a big sign and it said, "Welcome to Ferguson. Beware of the Dog." The all-night drugstore closed at noon.

When I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.

Freedom is something that should not be washed away in time leaving the essence alone in time.

Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

The good life is not an amount; it's an attitude, an act, an idea, a discovery, a search.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

The best ambassador is a warship.

In the Eighties, live work had to be very extravagant.

If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.

At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.

Don’t you think there’s a problem when we live in a society that considers a woman’s greatest accomplishment being pretty for a man?