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.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
Comedy is acting out optimism.
Sunlight is painting.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
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.
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Jests that give pains are not jests.
Be that self which one truly is.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.