A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.

There was a moment of silence and then Sutherland breathed, “But, darling! Gossip is the food of the gods.

[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain individuals or races.

When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.

I like my afterglow with you in motion. I measure time by how your body sways.

A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.

I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.

When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.

Looking at the creative process is like looking into a crystal: no matter which facet we gaze into, we see all the others reflected.