They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any affectation.

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

Think like a publisher, not a marketer.

As far as the country is concerned, we have tremendous potential, but we're not using it.

I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.

Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist.

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.