The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

The boat was so old; it must have been launched when Long John Silver had two legs and an egg on his shoulder.

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances.

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language.