We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

Peace without justice is tyranny

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

Human mind is the most unreliable thing in the universe. So control it.

Helping others is the oxygen of paradise.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead it's alive and living in the White House.

I left my record label, Polydor, by mutual agreement, but I'm going to carry on with my singing career.

Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.

It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.

I'm not a racist. And to judge me by that one word is wrong. In no way, shape or form is it ever acceptable for me to use that word, even if it's friend to friend on a voicemail.

I wouldn't want to be anyone to usurp the authority of the WWE.