Biography is higher gossip.

Other unsolved murders or untimely deaths were readily blamed on the supposedly sinister Jews: If a Jewish doctor failed to save a life, the whole Jewish community might be attacked and fined.

Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.

Welcome Beauty, banish fear.

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

I take a breath when I have to.

I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.

I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.

Service is what life is all about.

When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives.