Only the dead do not need wisdom

Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.

The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.

I always love depth. I like looking through windows, through frames, through spaces into other spaces.

If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.

History is everything that has ever happened.