How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.
Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.
I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.
I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and at times I don't believe I should mind having a little Phyllis Dawn but Dearest wants a boy and I do.
I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him.
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.