If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

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

Sunlight is painting.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with 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.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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 idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

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

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.