"The English language is direct, unapologetic, and wonderfully amoral. Italian has a beautiful sound, but you cannot help but feel that you are always dealing with ghosts from the past and the looming dark presence of the Vatican."

“The next minute or so was spent howling on the ceiling . Imp No.1 joined in, but he wasn't really feeling it. It shouldn't be "Who do we hate?", he thought, it really should be "whom", but this probably wasn't a good time to bring that up.”

“If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

“Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.”

Source : "Risky Teen Behaviors Encourage Oral Cancer" by Dr. Manny Alvarez, www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2007.

“One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the intention is to sell product or tickets. Art exists with or without ticket sales.”

“The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny.”

“Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.”

“How many times did we hear [Barack] Obama say, 'You didn't build that. You didn't build that - no, you need government.' We even saw Hillary Clinton say - remember her phrase - 'It takes a village to raise a child.' In other words, your children are not your children - they belong to the community.”

“Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.”