Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.

I have successfully avoided being stereotyped into a specific category. I've worked very hard at that, and I'm proud of not being easily lumped into anybody's preconceived notions or expectations.

The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes.

If you want to get on in life get off your arse because it ain't going to come to you. And if it does come to you and you're not off your arse then you ain't going to keep it very long.

Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.

By statute, Congress has given the president the authority to suspend immigration - any class of immigration if he deems it in the national interest.

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.