Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.

Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.

I sense that you are nearby, son and daughter of the Almari bloodline. I will soon come for you both.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Loving a country is an act of the imagination.

If you pay a little bit of attention to something, and then let it go, and then come back to it, and then pay a little bit of attention to something, that's nice and healthy.

Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide solace. I don't know if it's shallow or silly, but it meant so much to me.

I didn't know I hit that way (.625 with runners in scoring position). Maybe not knowing is my secret. If I chased numbers, maybe I wouldn't have as good results.

Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay.