Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.

Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you ANYWAY.

Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.

Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.

"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.

There is no magical solution because urban traffic congestion arises from the fact that a lot of people want to be in the same place at the same time often.

Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.