And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

If you have a poverty of heart then you are the poorest among the poor.

Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.

Pride becomes the blanket transgression that conceals the rest of our sins, allowing us to remain blind to them.

Fpr years I thought we were on the same page... then I discovered we were NOT even in the same book...

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.

Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.

We have paid the police for information in the past.

Women were doing quite well in this country before feminism came along.

The more I try to catch up, the farther I fall behind.