In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.

I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.

He wakes into music the green forest-bowers.

A [national] flag has no real significance for peaceful uses.

We are saved only by grace through faith.

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

I'm not going to benefit from free college education, but I think all those things are good for the country.

The success of every single woman is the inspiration for another.

I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint.

We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.

There was one rumor that I saw in a magazine saying I was pregnant. I thought that was brilliant and it still crops up now. But it's definitely not true. I can promise you that.

Ah, you fight like a sissy demon. (Takeshi) Sissy demon? Have you ever met a sissy demon? (Savitar) I killed three this morning. (Takeshi)

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.