Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

If you really want to get to know someone, you have to divorce him.

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

I think every [fighting] style has the same core. It's all about changing and positioning, transitions.

I don't care what the New York Times says about me, and no one I care about cares what the New York Times says about me.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.