Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.

I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.

Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.

I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.

Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.

A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.

Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.

Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.

I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the shock can kill a man.

As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is not an effort of once a week or once a day. It is an effort of once and for all.

You might be a redneck if every electrical outlet in your house is a fire hazard.

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.

I don't see, I think, any problems between India and the United States.

If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional.

These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.