When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, ' Amos liked to say. 'Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

The way it feels to me, ' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them.

I had long believed adversity was the greatest teacher, but I learnt that nothing teaches you more about life than death.

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Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.

You have to be a strong person to be in music, especially

The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms.

I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, "Let's start the year off together," and then we wound up breaking up the night after!

Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!

Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.

Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.