I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.

Why does man need bread? To survive. But why survive if it is only to eat more bread? To live is more than just to sustain life - it is to enrich, and be enriched by, life.

That tonight you’re falling asleep in my arms. Waking up the same place too.

My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York.

The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.

17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points.

Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.

Certain songs I feel different people should be on different tracks, you know it's emotional. I put myself into characters for certain records.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere.