"Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth."

“There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.”

Source : Alfred Whitney Griswold (1962). “Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays”

“I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life!”

“God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of the cross when I walk out onto the field. I feel I would be betraying Him if I didn't.”

“Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.”

“When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.”

“In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the Ninth Configuration. But, given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would take for just one of these protein molecules to appear by chance? Roughly 10 to the 243rd power, billions of years; and I find that far, far more fantastic than simply believing in a god.”

Source : "Fictional character: Col. Vincent Kane". The Ninth Configuration, www.imdb.com. 1980.

“Can a president who’s presided over, and possibly encouraged, Chinese-style surveillance of The Land of the Free honestly expect to serve out his full term?”

“It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?”