I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.
Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.
Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.
I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know you'll always be with us.
Say my husband had a dangerous job and I wasn't with him, I don't know how you go, 'Oh honey, how was it with the police department today? You got all your fingers and toes today?' It would scare me. I'd have to become a police officer and work with him; I couldn't do it.