People do not want advice - they want corroboration.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

Jews have been the most successful and productive nation in history.

A sailor's love for the sea is only matched by his mistress's salty kiss.

JACKSON: When I give my word I mean that sh*t and I have no respect for anyone who breaks their word so easily.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

My name is George Smoot III, and I AM smarter than a fifth-grader.

I believe that we're in an ideological struggle; I believe the only way to marginalize those who murder the innocent, to achieve our ideological objectives, is to spread democracy and freedom.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.

I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!"

No fool can be silent at a feast.