A pun, like champagne, loses its sparkle when too long drawn out. Its flash is its savor.

I honor every woman who has strength enough to step out of the beaten path when she feels that her walk lies in another.

[On leaving the U.S. for Italy:] I ought to be accomplishing thrice as much as now, and feel that I am soul-bound and thought-bound in this land of dollars and cents.

Words are cold and formal things.

May the Lord revive and restore you to good health.

At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

If you got everything you wanted, you wouldn't have everything you need.

In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, a world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road.

If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need to fear the ones we did.

You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?