It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

An idea is salvation by imagination

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

A person preaches well that lives well.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.