A good speech is like a miniskirt--long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners.

Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth.

No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.

In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.

We shall not rest until we have rooted out Christianity .

I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us.

The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon.

We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

Japan needs to cooperate with China economically. This is understood better by the business community than the government.

The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.