We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed.

I really need a gin and tonic.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

There is no security for any of us unless there is security for all

The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.

If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

I don't know why but when i look in your eyes, I feel something that seems so right.