What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.

It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.

No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You shouldn't have a baby if there's no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.

At times, he admitted, he had been very happy in the apple business. He knew what Larch would have told him: that his happiness was not the point, or that it wasn't as important as his usefulness.

And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, which ones did he break, or replace--and with what confidence?

Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God

A murder was never about brawn, it began and ended in the brain and the brain could justify anything.

Your political views really denote your spiritual views.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

I grew up in Orange County, California, all over the beaches of San Clemente and that area.

It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend oneself. I don't think it's fair to ask anybody not to defend herself or himself.

I'm sure clubs have a lot of power these days.

The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.

Football is a contact sport and there's a lot that goes into it. But I have committed myself for a long time to doing it, and because I love doing it so much I want to make that commitment.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.