Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.