When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea.

Six nervous wives at the sink, each quiet as a queen on a chessboard.

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

We kind of shape our truths as we speak them. We fashion things to suit the occasion or the person or our own needs in the moment.

Life really is a series of contrasts.

We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.

Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.

It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.

The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?