Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits.

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

I shed more tears than God could ever have required.

you have to look at life, feel it, face it, and deal with it.

We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

Everyone must have a shot at the American Dream.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."

The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.