When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.

If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.

An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.

Number rules the universe.

A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation

If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.

The next-most difficult thing in the world is to get perspective. The most difficult is to keep it.

All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.

How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.

O sweet spontaneous earth

It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.