No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.

I try to get control of the tempo, control of the flow, and get my teammates the ball in the best position to score.

When everything is going wrong, it seems like nothing goes right

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help.

Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray.

I was in church a little bit as a very young kid, but, as they say in the South, 'it didnt take.' None of it took with me.