I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Lovers are food for each other to sustain their lives

Even the suicide desires his own good: he wrongly imagines that he would be better off dead. The moral problem is not that we love ourselves but that we love ourselves the wrong way.

The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.

There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted by faith. So it's a kind of paradox.

If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.

The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.

We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.

If the Senate is the world's greatest deliberative body, the House is poised to be the world's greatest tweeting one.

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.