I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

Confidence is not "They will like me". Confidence is "I’ll be fine even if they don’t

If you think someone is AWESOME, tell them! The world NEEDS more of THAT!

Ain't nothin wrong, ain't nothing right and still I sit and lie awake all night.

How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years of pleasure here, is quite unfurnished for the world to come.

How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

There were a lot of people, I found, whod rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

What happens to your money directly affects the quality of your life -- not your stockbroker's life or your banker's life, but YOUR life.

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.