[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

Tanacity is the dance within the art of opportunity

I have a constant hungry bum. It's like my own venus fly trap

If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used.

You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.

Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.

Everyone is curious about the intentions of their enemies.

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

This would be so much easier if they actually issued black hoods.

Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.

I'm not too sure if I have a very smart approach to revealing my life. Luckily, I doubt if many people really care about my life that much.