You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.

Faith is the enemy of discovery.

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

She knows what it is to be sad and miserable, but those emotions are almost enjoyable. They throw moments of happiness and laughter into sharper relief.

…once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi Pavarotti DiMaggio Valentino De Niro Giuliani. . .

To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.

But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to someone, we should find consolation in the thought of the sacrifice.

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.

We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

On the dance floor, as much as you say, 'Ladies, you are the car. He is the driver. You can only go where he takes you,' they still try to be in control.

Stop Bullying. No one deserves to feel worthless.

There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.