Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.

No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

I don't fear for a physical death, but when my conscience dies, that is a real death

Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.

Our system is a mess, but 90 percent of America has insurance coverage.

It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.' 'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.' 'You can hear radio waves?' 'Of course not. Nobody can hear radio waves,' he said unconvincingly.

We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.

I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.