I was incredibly depressed and I found myself avoiding doing interviews where my [20-something daughters] could hear me - or leaving books on the coffee table they could see.

Money cannot buy the moments of grace.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

I'm getting pretty worried. My girlfriend hasn't gotten her period. And she's already 14.

The living moment is everything.

A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.

There's no day that is the same as the day before. So you have to be energized; you have to be focused.

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.