Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

I have every reason to be sad, but I don't have any reason to mourn. People grieve when things end. Nothing has ended tonight. One of us has simply gone ahead as we always knew it would have to be.

Unfortunately, the worst part of a product/service is the seller.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

The enemy of feminism isn’t men. It’s patriarchy, and patriarchy is not men. It is a system, and women can support the system of patriarchy just as men can support the fight for gender equality.

Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.