I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

Reality is reality when it exists inside and outside the mind.

I figured I wasn't supposed to be capable of that kind of thinking, and I felt like an alien. I feel that a lot, actually, in a lot of circumstances. Like I ought to be feeling something I don't.

Church may be primarily for believers, but the gospel is for all people.

There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.

All I care is what the boys at the forks of the creek think of me.

The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinions of any man.

It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.

And you know what the worst part is? I never learned to read!