I don't think he believed most of the things he said himself.

I don't think he believed most of the things he said himself.

Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.

No sin, especially no great sin, is just a harm done to the individual who commits it. I believe myself that the future of the human race is bound up with that idea. The soul that is conscious of a grievous sin is conscious of a great harm done to the community - to someone else. That common hurt should now be forgiven.

It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country.

I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.

I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.

My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me as an Israeli architect.

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

Love always had my number. I could never patch a breakup together with whiskey and a one-night stand. I took them real hard.

I was lucky enough myself to have been in Dad's Army for an episode.

Animals are God's creatures. He surrounds them with his providential care. By their mere existence they bless him and give him glory. Thus men owe them kindness.

Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.

From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.

When it first notices an approaching threat, a fly's body might be in any sort of posture depending on what it was doing at the time, like grooming, feeding, walking, or courting. Our experiments showed that the fly somehow 'knows' whether it needs to make large or small postural changes to reach the correct preflight posture.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

You just can't beat the person who won't give up.

Though I'm getting a lot of acting offers, I'd like to enter only when I'm ready. My first love will always be music.

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.