When you chop wood, splinters fly

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

You create yourself by becoming something new each day

Society is built upon trust.

I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

I think I'm going to Katmandu, that's really, really where I'm going to

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.

Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

We are here for the world, not for our comfort only.

Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.