So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

It is a blessing for a man to have a hand in determining his own fate.

Make-up is actually something I've always really loved.

Iowa's the worst. Iowa's just nothing, just flat as far as you can see. It's the only state in the country where you can stand on your front porch and actually watch your dog run away for three days.

What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

To me, these biblical stories are just so many fish stories, and I'm not specifically referring to Jonah and the whale. I need indisputable proof of anything I'm asked to believe.