If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.

You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels.

I know what it's like to sleep in fear, to starve myself to be worthy, to be ashamed of my voice, to want to sleep forever. To question why I deserve to live.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.

I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

I have a lot of respect for my birth mother I know she must have had a lot of love for me to want to give what she felt was a better chance.

I have a level of fear going into every project, and that's what keeps me going.

I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.

The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.