morality is moral only when it is voluntary

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

I have seen the future, and it works.

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring an interesting angle to the character that isn't written.

I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.

The American conscience died with the Kennedys.

You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.

We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives.

Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

I've had a lot of operations. I'm kind of like Franken-actor.

And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.