While I cannot be regarded as a pillar I must be regarded as a buttress of the church because I support it from outside.

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Solitude and retirement cherish grief, employment and exertion are the only means of dissipating it.

And then his arms were around me. When he kissed me it was hungrier somehow, as if this moment was all we had, and we had to taste it, drink it, savor it, and not waste a single drop.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness but in allowing happiness to change its form ... happiness like a child must be allowed to grow up.

the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

I want players who are always striving to improve.

Little by little, one travels far

Well, there was a time when we used to sacrifice goats, but then we all became vegans, so we've been sacrificing tofu before the shows!

L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things.

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.