I can move any crowd.
Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.
How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.
There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.
It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.
There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.
The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.
I've just always sung - just always sung. My voice has always been my best friend.
I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.
A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants of the founding fathers. . . . when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood. In it you could not read the ethnic particulars of the soldier who died next to you. He was an American. And when I think of how we learned this lesson, I wonder [how] we could have unlearned it.