A man who doesn’t detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government in earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

The king was pregnant.

At the pit's bottom is no anger.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.""It might to keep it open.

Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.

The man who walks with God always gets to his destination.

How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

We have to fight terror in one voice, rising above politics. That is when the common people will feel secure.

Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud.

The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.