Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

Someone said that once a family producers a writer, that's the end of the family.

Like when people say they slept like a baby. Do they mean they slept well? Or do they mean they woke up every ten minutes, screaming?

Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again.

Do something better and different that people know you by your work not by your name.

We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.

And we came forth to contemplate the stars.

If you know anything about me, I've never been a trash-talker. That's not even part of my DNA.

Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.

I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.