Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Be beautiful and you are doing your part to create a more beautiful world.

We experience new culture with every journey.

When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.

Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much.

Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.

Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?

A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you its perfume.