I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

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.

Nothing's better for art than a little old-fashioned suffering.

If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.

you knowI knowyou knowI'll remember youand I knowYou knowI knowyou'll remember me

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people.

I do not want to give any orders to the airmen, but get hold of a Komsomol air unit, and say I want volunteers for the job.

Honesty has always worked for me.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

You walk into a room, see a woman, and something happens. It's chemical. What are you going to do about it?