You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.

We have gotten so use to humor being something nasty and offensive that we started to believe that was the only way to get a laugh.

Ms. Sophia was evil bananas.

I guess a little bit hero is enough. A little bit hero is all anyone really needs to be.

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.