Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

The world is like an enormous set of scales. When evil begins to outweigh good, angels cram themselves in on the lighter side. You can't see them, but there they are, restoring the balance.

...there is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

To destroy is easier than to create, and that is why so many people are ready to demonstrate against what they reject. But what would they say if one asked them what they wanted instead?

Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

There is so much that needs to be said and too many things that can't ever be said.

I know I tackled something big, new, and scary and I survived.

I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.

We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade.

An education without a Bible education is no education.

I have to have an emergency phone number in case anything happens

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.

Women are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races.