Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.

Confession is for the confessor. It makes you feel good

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question every one should be serene slow-pulsed and calm.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder though and is punished as such.

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

Verbing weirds language.

I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)

No force in this world can stop the work of God.

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.

I think - you know, I'm a guy that - I don't live on the earth just to walk it. I live on here to make a difference.

I have found that the key to being happy - well, one of the keys, anyway - is to be easily amused.