There's something that happens to you when you come back to your hometown.

I think habits and behaviors are very hard to change. And they're even harder when you're back home.

It's easier to fall back into old behaviors when you come back to a place where you were a shorter person.

No amount of wishing will bring back the dead.

Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)

Tom Hanks is a huge superstar. And people tell me he's a very nice guy, not arrogant, not an entitlement guy. But very quietly, Mr. Hanks has become a left-wing power player in Hollywood.

My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

We now have a national reputation for corruption.

The most consummately beautiful thing in the universe is the fashioned life of a good person.

The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities.

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

Go sweep out the chamber of your heart. Make it ready to be the dwelling place of the Beloved. When you depart out, He will enter it. In you, void of yourself, will He display His beauties.

We can't afford to be innocent, stand up and face the enemy. It's a do or die situation, we will be invincible.