The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.

MY DOCTOR phoned and said you don't deserve this news, but your lungs are crystal clear'.

I have a natural curiosity for people.

Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.

Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.

New York in the 60s was amazing.

It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

I was born the same year the greatest automobile in the history of automobiles was created, the 1957 Chevrolet. Thank God only one of us had tail fins.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.

Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.

We have the most incompetently worked trade deals ever negotiated probably in the history of the world, and that starts with NAFTA. And now they want to go TPP, one of the great disasters.

When it comes to details, more is not necessarily better.

I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.

The rains of Life's Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.