The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity

A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly.

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.

When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

You were the dead; theirs was the future.

I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

No one contends that the other Amendments that preserve rights of 'the people' -the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth-do not preserve individuals' rights. The same must be true of the Second.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.

People are always making rules for themselves and always finding loop-holes.