No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.

In large States public education will always be extremely mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is at best only mediocre.

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.

A lot of factors go into the longevity of a show.

An enlightened master is a perpetual source of the cosmic light because his mind is always merged with nirvana.

And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.

The Democratic Party structure is keenly aware of who makes our party strong.

I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.

More precious than life is love, for there can be no life without love.

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.