Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.

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 was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it's like some kind of brain surgery...

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.

Whenever a treaty of peace is signed, God is present.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

That comes too late that comes for the asking.

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.