One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.

Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

Be a mentor to others. Your most important legacy is preparing new leaders to carry on your goals.

Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.

May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people

There's a lot of people I'd love to work with at some point, but I think the song has to be the right thing. It has to be the right fit.

You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame.

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

Marriage is this black box which is the key to all social and political problems; the family is the unit.