In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Love grows by service.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.

I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing.

He said I wanted revenge, but if I wanted revenge I would’ve just broken his heart.

Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark.

Basset Hounds never get scared. We’re fearless, resolute and know how to season a good lamb chop.

My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.

What would you prefer? 'What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers….

Big voice, big heart - Mary Ellen Wessels is a pleasure to hear.

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

The Japan-U.S. alliance is an irreplaceable alliance. And I would like to further consolidate and broaden that alliance.

Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding.