The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.

There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.

It is the secret life that sustains me now, and as I reach the top of that bridge I say it in a whisper, I say it as a prayer, as regret, and as praise. I can't tell you why I do it or what it means, but each night when I drive toward my southern home and my southern life, I whisper these words: 'Lowenstein, Lowenstein.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.

Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.