The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.

Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.

... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women.

Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.

history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.

To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants.

Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.

I can fall in and out of love, have marriages that barely last a month. When they go down the drain, I'll blame it on the fame.

[One of my kids ]is not named after Aldous Huxley. I haven't even read Brave New World!

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

He (Jackie Robinson) was the greatest competitor I've ever seen. I've seen him beat a team with his bat, his ball, his glove, his feet and, in a game in Chicago one time, with his mouth.

Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine.

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.