The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Whatever it is that you want to do, do it today because you can handle the pain of trying hard now but you won’t be able to handle the pain of regret later.

We can feel damaged and sad and mad and know that it doesn’t make us any less worthy than when we didn’t feel that way.

I've thought about it a hundred times. I even buy bridal magazines sometimes. I want David Tutera to do my wedding.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.

We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.

Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie anymore.

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

Brexit must mean control of the number of people who come to Britain from Europe, and that is what I will deliver.