Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!
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.
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.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
Before I speak, I have something important to say.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
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.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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.
