New York is the great stone desert.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

Everything changes but change.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

New York is the great stone desert.

It takes two men to make one brother.

The cold cut like a many bladed knife.

The only true love is love at first sight second sight dispels it.

The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land.

The past: our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

People teach us remarkable lessons if we are open to learning.

Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.

I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look what were wearing or how powerful or rich we are they judge us in terms of sensitivity consistency and patience. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we as humans then strive to maintain.

Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.

Professionally I would say taking up my constituents' problems is something I continue to enjoy after 22 years as an MP.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

I do research for every single book, regardless. For 'Double Dutch,' I learned to jump and learned the scoring system. For 'November Blues,' I interviewed pregnant teens. I like to get up close and personal with the kids involved in the situations I write about.

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.

When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

The inner witness is a part of us that sits behind all of the drama.

Gentlemen, I give you the Whittle engine.

I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.

I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.

No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.

There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is what makes the New Testament a New Testament rather than the Old Testament, in which women did not have such privileges.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Is that your final answer? Here in New York garbage men, bus drivers, taxi cab drivers, bus drivers, whoever, you know, people just yell it out to me. So that was a lot of fun.

I have always wanted to become a musician and a singer.

With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention.

We must be unafraid to be utterly honest to honor our gut feelings and to say and do the unpopular when necessary. We have to give up our addiction to other peoples opinions and surrender to the freedom of acting with strength and courage.

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' come together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.