When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Common sense is not so common.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

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.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Fashion changes, but style endures.