Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

Es dauerte einen Moment, bis er ihr antwortete:Nein, ich spreche von... von eurer Freiheit, glaube ich. Von dem Glück, das ihr habt, für euch zu leben und auf alles andere zu pfeifen.

Out of the decisions that we make in life, our Self emerges. What we choose in life is not the thing chosen out there, but oneself.

It seems fine to revolt in front of all, but apologizing fro the same in a similar situation makes you feel smallIt is an irony! that's what I call..

If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.

How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?

Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.

Thinking evil is making evil.

I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don't look at me; look at the moon.

Is it important that you have a strong leadership for your party? I think it's critical.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.