I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.