Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.
At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.
Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives
Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations
A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.
Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.
There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.