And Quotes

Though old and wise, yet still advise.

Everyone is a master and servant.

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.

David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.

I'd love to have Michael Jackson [in my show] because he's black and white. So he would appeal to a universal demographic.

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

I find China such a fascinating and interesting country. Each time I come back something has changed and it's moved on in leaps and bounds.

And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.

Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked. 'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.

Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.

We're in the transition between birth and death. But the one that people often know about is the transition between the moment of death and whatever comes next, so reincarnation or heaven or hell.

Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment. It's what's between us and chaos.

In a certain way, we're always toggling back and forth between the absolute and the relative, if that makes sense.

2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day and night airlift.

But away from the rituals of Washington, alongside the elation of [Donald] Trump supporters, there is deep anxiety, anger and fear.

As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)

Everybody funny, now you funny too.

When I walk the streets, kings and queens step aside, every woman I meet, they all stay satisfied.

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.

I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state.

There's a way to accomplish the separation of church and state and at the same time accomplish the social objective of having America become a hopeful place and loving place.

The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.

We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.

We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that.

I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge between church and state.

It's important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots.

I was very fortunate to have had a mother and father who loved me in spite of my failings.

What people can't possibly imagine is what it's like to have two presidents who have a relationship as father and son.

Yes, we [USA] can be safe and secure, if we stay on the offense against the terrorists and if we spread freedom and liberty around the world.

I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like, whatever you're going to do with it, it is as it is for a reason.

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

Anchor your faith in the plain and simple truths of the gospel.

The Federal role in overcoming barriers to needed health care should emphasize health care financing programs-such as Medicare and Medicaid.

I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.

You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!

You can have a poem like "B-Movie" and sum up thirty conversations that people have had on the subject, but I wrote it down, and other people didn't.

If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.

I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I'm not being immodest when I say I'm a natural athlete.

I don't diet. There's going to be barbecues and macaroni and cheese - but I'll have broccoli and salad the next day.

They say men and women can't be friends, but that's not true.

I think, as an artist I done conquered every way that you can go, as far as with creativeness, and directions and love, and you pissed off or, your happy.