miracles had to be paid for; only calamity was free.

Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.

Like poetry, in times of intense emotion the image returns to me. Like poetry, it stroked my soul and, by turns, lulled and stoked my senses.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.

One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

Treat employees like they make a difference and they will

People, particularly big men carrying big rifles, don't expect lip from a scrawny thing like me. They always look a bit dazed when they get it.

I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.