If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Most of our people have never had it so good.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

I'd like that translated, if I may.

The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us.

Every adversity is the fuel for the soul. The greatest self-realization occurs during the greatest adversity.

The fragility of the intellectual is the same as the poet's:It's all about the I and its desperate sense of the we.

For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I think they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.

In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

The celebrity thing is such a thing in itself now.

If I want to hang out with people, they unfortunately need to be working as often as I am.

It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.