The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.

Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common.

If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Don't live beyond your means. Don't buy more than you can pay for. Don't expect to get rich quick. And don't confuse salesmen for friends or advisers.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Friendship with the world removes God’s protection and His covering from us.

Damn it, it wasn’t quite fresh enough!

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

Page one is a diet, page two is a chocolate cake. It's a no-win situation.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

Remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.