Florida Scott-Maxwell

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.