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

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.

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.

[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.

You have to stop thinking that way. Don't worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that's the biggest power you can have.

Respect Rewards

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!

If you want to know if a gentleman loves you,” her mother said, “there is only one true way to be sure.” “It’s in his kiss,” her mother whispered. “It’s all there, in his kiss.

I work with intuition. With interpreters. I have my own method. I know exactly what I want from actors. Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear.

I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.