As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt.

As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.

It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living.

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

Youth is wasted on the young.

I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghettoCuz where else in death do I get to go?

If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

On the battlefield, (the U.S. war in Iraq) cannot be considered a success. It's a struggle. We're doing what we can to support them with equipment, assistance, training, and sharing any intelligence.

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.