The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.

by confusing life with play-acting and play-acting with life, one may perhaps construct a tolerable moral world from shattered fragments of the past

When you have nothing left, you don’t have anything to lose.

My kids are very young. I'm sure there's a world of horror for me to worry about as they get older.

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

Sometimes the best things are the ones that aren’t planned, the decisions made while living in the moment.

You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me.

Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.

The future has taken root in the present.

O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.