The weak have one weapon - the errors of those who think they are strong.

Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling dogs.

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives stop thinking and go in.

You now have permission to be strong and healthy and calm and relaxed. There's no place else to go. There's nothing else to do.

... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

I was walking down the street, and I found a man's hand in my pocket. I asked, "What do you want?" "A match" "Why didn't you ask me?" "I don't talk to strangers."

People killing each other in the Middle East is not news. People not killing each other in the Middle East is news.

Meditation on Jesus Christ crucified is a precious balm which sweetens all pains.

If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.