Just because you can make a choice, doesn’t mean you should. Some things are better left alone.

Resentment generates hate

The wheel of fortune that had once raised her so high had taken her into the utter depths.

The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

The Russian proposal is ambiguous. If they want to propose enrichment (only) in Russia we have said it is not acceptable. But if it is a complementary or parallel plan, we will study that.

We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of no ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of bad ideas.

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.