When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

Someday find my son...tell him about how things can be between men on this Earth."--A Letter to Jesse Owens

The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.

I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing.

The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.

I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said to himself, the spirit has taken up some of the heavy work.

I probably thought that about most of the things I did. But you wind up in situations where you have to make decisions very quickly, and you just go for it a lot of the time.

No one of us is more important than the rest of us.

There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me.