What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.

If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?

I'm sorry to burden you, ' she said. She felt like a crybaby.'What can we do with our stories, ' he said, 'but tell them?

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

You are not in love. Love is inside you longing for expression.

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

O Lord you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done as you please. Give what you will how much you will and when you will.

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

The Democrats should have an empty chair on stage for the entire DNC, and when anyone asks who it belongs to, they can say Osama bin Laden.

In America, we have cities that are far more dangerous than Afghanistan.

I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.

We now have a satisfactory solution not only to coalition forces, but also to the Iraqi authorities themselves.

I hate to be a broken record - my parents have a lot to do with that too, because that's how they live their lives.