A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Reality is changing Viena. You can not stop the cycle.

The cop looks annoyed, like we're giving him a headache. I want to explain everything to him that its really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.

I never really did any disco dancing.

The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something.

When I think about who influenced my life the most as a Leader, I think of my Mother. She, more than anyone, taught me how to lead with love.

No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

I was given a chance and I took it.

The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.