our dispassionate acceptance of attrition...[can] be matched by a full use of everything that has ever happened in all the long wonderful-ghastly years to free a person's mind from his body.

I let myself exist mainly through my children... [but] I could not even guess at the lives my children led.

If I were rich, I would buy him a new black suit. ... If I had next week's allowance and had not spent this week's on three Cherry Flips ...

Something is wrong with me, it's something about me. it has to be me because all those people cannot have changed.

Modesty was hardly a priority in her mind until now. Now she had been cast from Hell and again knew shame.

If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]

I hit some great shots in my lifetime; now I hit a decent shot and I get a standing ovation.

Jesus is never bored in his relationship with you.

It's five o'clock in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time.