Failure isn't falling down. Failure is not getting up after you have fallen down.

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.

Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

I don't say any word that I don't approve.

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.

I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between actor and audience, the better.

The more you love your children, the more care you should take to neglect them occasionally. The web of affection can be drawn too tight.

Life is not at all what you might think it to be A simple tale where each thing has its history It's much more than its scuffle and anything goes Both evil and good, subject to the same laws.

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.