The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.

The finest fury is the most controlled.

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.

Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.

Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive.

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.

Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.

Leave no "full stop" in between the sentences that make up your life story. If anything, let "commas" show that when you were brought down by challenges, you rose up with passion and moved on again!

We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other.

Satan will do everything he can to divide Christians and destroy our witness. Only the Holy Spirit can subdue our old nature and overcome it with God’s love.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you

'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.

I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.