Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story.

The beauty of being!

When death tells a story yo really have to listen

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?