What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us all?

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don't want to lie more than is average.

God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few.

Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

Whenever I write a dramatic poem I can't understand why the characters should ever want to be anything but poets themselves.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.

I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There is water in the carburetor." I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake."

In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can't be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve.

When you're a kid going on being an adult, everything radiates so deeply and resonates so passionately, and I like the opportunity to tell those stories.

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to 'riots, terrorism - and death.'

I think business needs to have a heart and to have a heart a company must be more than just a moneymaking machine.

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.