It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

A man without words is a man without thought.

All great and precious things are lonely.

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

Because we are human. We adapt, we adjust, and we think too damn much.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.

Good impro can make you laugh, we love it, but soon the content is forgotten. Good scenes from The Life Game stay with you always. They haunt you.

Now the entire world has its eyes on China.

Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need is in the others.