No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that.

The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy

Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged.

Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

My job as a leader is not to say, 'Hey, look at me. I'm a leader.' It's to lead. I mean, I've got to go out and find ways to win these games.

I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

(Slaughter) means blood and iron. [Lat., Coedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.]

As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

No man knows himself as an original.