Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
