Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

Optimism: A cheerful frame of mind that enables a tea kettle to sing though in hot water up to its nose.

I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.

You get hit by one of those right hands or an uppercut or a left hook by Mark Hunt, then you know that **** is on and that cage is locked, and there's nowhere to go.

You guard your hopes and pocket your dreams, you'd trade it all to avoid an unpleasant scene.

The final heartbeat for the Christian is not the mysterious conclusion to a meaningless existence. It is, rather, the grand beginning to a life that will never end.

Do you want to see a mother and son antagonistically attack each other every single episode for five years? I don't think so.

An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.

A soul untried by sorrows is good for nothing.

English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.