Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

Spend time for yourself, walk in solitude, refresh your mind and body so that you can spend time for others and walk with them! Spend time for yourself!

Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there?

Just because you're the enemy of my enemy don't mean you're my friend, Han thought.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

The demand for racial (and sexual) justice gets reduced to politics of identity - and excoriating the so-called perpetrators of the identity politics.

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.