When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment.

Some people can handle alcohol. You know who you are. Some people can't handle alcohol. The police know who you are.

Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.

At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.

The female struggle implies the black struggle, it implies the struggle with anti-Semitism, it implies all of the other struggles. That is the only possible way to think about human liberation.

I'm a big fan of Paco Rabanne's 1 Million.

We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.

In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial.

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.