... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

It was good to walk into a library again it smelled like home.

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.

Without basic human values guiding us, we become morally bankrupt. Without love as our purpose, we become empty. Without understanding of both of these, we become lost.

I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.

My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.

I thank God that I have been meeting so many people who want to help me.

Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.

When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.

We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.

Ideally, anything one writes should have a social conscience: if you can write a story that thrills, and with a good message, that's the perfect type of a story.

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.