The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.

Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.

When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.

History is the zoology of the human race.

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

My wife is really sentimental. One Valentine's Day I gave her a ring and to this day she has never forgotten those three little words that were engraved inside Made in Taiwan!

I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.