Altogether, the first glimpse of his bride-which should have come as no surprise to Alex, standing there looking so lean and handsome himself-nearly brought him to his knees.

What Mrs. Schuyler is saying, " General Schuyler added, "is that it is the Schuylers who would be honored by a union woth so brilliant and noble a personage as Colonel Hamilton.

For Alex to be enveloped into one of New York State's blue-ribbon families helped put to bed a lifetime of doubts and depression about his own dubious birthright.

Art is about going a little nuts and justifying the next sentence.

To hate someone just because he doesn't presume like you is big blunder.

The morning has gold in its mouth.

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

The way you become happy is by realizing that there is no self. No self at all, not a silly millimeter of self. You don't exist. When you know this, you will be happy.

The funny thing is that I'm not a planner. I have no idea what I want to do in the interim of that 50 years, but I tell ya: That's where you'll find me in my last performance.

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

The danger with Margret Thatcher is that when she speaks without thinking she says what she thinks.

There is no doubt as to what needs to happen. There has to be a complete rejection of the type of terrorist attacks carried out in India.