It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

I have seen the future, and it works.

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

What I know is nothing but that we are a spring path of autumn light carved into a river of ancient singing.

Don't kill the game with your 'funk', elevate it with your humility.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

I really respond to putting myself out of my own depth and finding my feet.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back

There is no force in the universe more powerful than your will or power.

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

I haven't had ice-cream in a year, although I did have a slice of pizza. People don't realise that when you're shooting a movie it's only three months to get in shape for.

I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.