I have a simple principle for the conduct of life - never to resist an adequate temptation.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

A smile is a friend maker

She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.

I aim to help the Germans and the Europeans successfully travel all the way down the path toward European integration, and I can do this more effectively if I don't commit myself to a party.

[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.

The emotional people...You tap into people's hearts.

Like a horse, honey, somebody's gonna break you.' 'Never. Going. To. Happen.

Ah, you fight like a sissy demon. (Takeshi) Sissy demon? Have you ever met a sissy demon? (Savitar) I killed three this morning. (Takeshi)

At one point, Lucille's agent wanted to have me fired, telling her that my eyes were bigger than hers. When I head this, I told her that if I had her looks and talent, I'd keep me and fire the agent!

By the end of his career, he [Steve Jobs] has proven that he can do the impossible, and he has gathered probably the most loyal team of eight players of any business in America.