Better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

Stop throwing away days, weeks, months, and years by simply day-dreaming about what you wish your life would be.

Some nights are just too long when you don't know what keeps you awake...

When we parted, on the Boulevard du Montparnasse, I leaned over to give her a kiss on the cheek. ‘If you do find paradise, ’ she said, turning to leave, ‘send me a grape.

I like to zoom out of the situation so I can see it all and don't get caught up in the little things down there.

The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

I believe that everything in Nature aspires to the acme of strength, well-being, and happiness; and everything that deviates from this I call immoral.

We all assume the worst the best we can.

Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.

I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness.

Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.