Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

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.

There is nothing wrong with falling in love. Don't trip and bump your head only to realize you're experiencing infatuation.

Give yourself the love and attention you desire, it's the starting point of contentment.

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher.

If you try to look But you don't touch Then you won't touch But you'll never feel And if you don't feel You'll never cry And if you don't cry Then you'll never heal.

People will always talk, so lets give them sumthin to talk about

I've never given anybody steroids before. I've been checked out three times already, and I'm clean. I've been clean all my life.

What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.

Hell and heaven are within you, both gates are within you. When you are behaving unconsciously there is the gate of hell; when you become alert and conscious, there is the gate of heaven.

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.