The fairy tale belongs to the poor...I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairy tale is an absurdity.

I am sure that there is many a young man who would think it a great honor to exchange his name for yours.

We were happy. I know I ought to be able to tell you about it, yet I cannot, for while a nightmare will stay with you like hunger, when you awake from a happy dream, you have no memory of it.

Mans vanity transgresses death

I was not frightened as they were, for the very violence of his threats showed how weak he was.

If people spend years trying to prove that you are less than it's because you are more than enough and they feel threatened. You are more than people's opinions.

Problems are inevitable. Staying in control of your emotions is optional.

When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.

A woman who is loved always has success.

Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?

Some people, they just don't get a joke.

Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.

Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor.

Redeem the time. Redeem the unread vision of a higher dream.