It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Moonlight is sculpture.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

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

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

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

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

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

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

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

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.