I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear.

Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.

If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.

I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.

Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.

With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat - I mean, you can't drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit - a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean.

Real meditation engenders humility and purity, always. Yet I don't really think it demands any kind of lifestyle.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.

I accept the historical challenge, and with that, I accept the essentially Christian position that God always has more light to break out of his holy Word.

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

I think the fakest thing in the world is to judge someone on how they look.

Salvation never will come through hope of reward.