History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.

When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

Optimism is cowardice.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull craft of experimental psychology.

Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.

History reveals there is no moral high ground

When I was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those.

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.

I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain.

I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.

As a lead singer, all I want to do is be in my own head and think about how great I am. That's a lead singer's disease.

One of the learning curves I'm not going to have is being a head coach.

It's amazing how fast gold works.