Effective action is always unjust.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Genius is sorrow's child.