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.

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.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

There is a universal urge to rethink our spirituality in order to give us a new sense of security.

Let's keep people with weird religious faiths out of government. Especially those who have a weird religious faith IN government.

And if this is illegal, then sue me!

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.

If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

Goals. There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them.

Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.

Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.

Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.