Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.

Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

The problem of abolishing want is not a problem in division, as the politicians so often aver; it is a problem of multiplication.

Love is greater than Addiction

Politics is a delicate art of saying what people want to hear and doing what people don't want to hear

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.

I just want to be like other people that are normal.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.

Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.

Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art.

It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.

I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.