Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The way to rise is to obey and please.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.

I'm a menace to society, But girls in biker shorts are so fly to me. After the date, I'mma want to do the wild thing... You're talkin' lobster? I'm thinkin' Burger King.

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

Don't fight forces, use them.

What is now in the past was once in the future