My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

And gain is gain, however small.

Robert Browning

When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.

Rich Lowry

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Charles Baudelaire

God does not play dice with the universe.

Albert Einstein

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

Ronald Reagan

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

W. C. Fields

If justice is removed... the great, the immense fabric of human society...must in a moment crumble into atoms.

Adam Smith

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

Isabelle Eberhardt

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Francis Bacon

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

Gerhard Schroder

Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.

Kristin Scott Thomas