To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

Obama's latest line is that he didn't establish a "red line" but the world did through its conventions on chemical warfare.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

If you are someone, you know, with fame, whatever amount, it's good to be married to someone who's not impressed with that at all.

We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.

Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.