In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.

Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.

[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain individuals or races.

It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.

No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?

We have to modernize how we make laws.

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.

That's a very privileged job and I love it with all my heart. I'm planning on playing my best volleyball to date throughout 2016 and certainly during the Olympics.

I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t matter.

I've never done it before. Sometimes it's tough. I don't have any peripheral vision.