Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.

When you get to the junction of double mindedness in purposefulness, remember the will of God.

I have a repository of knowledge, but I have no money, it means I have no respect.

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

Best advice that I ever got is to do whatever it takes to make myself happy, so that I'll be able to make others happy. If I'm not happy, I can't make other people happy.

Perhaps they put party loyalty ahead of the welfare of their constituents, are afraid of crossing the president or are as stupid as Mr. Gruber thinks the American people are.

If some Western politician claims he is in a position to use the normal Western methods to feed and clothe 1.2 billion Chinese, we would be happily prepared to elect him president of China.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.