People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

It is only when you run away from what society wants you to do with your time and then invest that time into doing what you were born to do that you can attain greatness and live a fulfilled life.

Love is dead, and the only thing remained is a small slice of respect.

Taking risks gives me energy.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

I don't like when people pay for me.

Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy.

Think of your woods and orchards without birds! Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams As in an idiot's brain remembered words Hang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams!

The Bible is either absolute, or it's obsolete.

Cheap liquor is a magic potion that can turn you into a puppet cowboy before it kills you.

Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?