Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

All men are equal before fish.

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.

Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

Loneliness is the teacher of giving.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

Even today, I'm much more comfortable dressed in a male kind of way.

I don't enjoy any kind of danger or volatility. I don't have that kind of 'I love the bad guys' thing. No, no thank you. I like nice people.