In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.

The finest fury is the most controlled.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.

Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.

Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive.

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.

All sports for all people.

My belief also is that Marilyn Monroe passed away long before she should have left us.

I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

Do not cruise through red lights. Because if I'm coming the other way, I will run you down, for fun.

All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie eine ew'ge Krankheit fort.]

Change is often rejuvenating, invigoration, fun ... and necessary.

The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.

I would like people to see me as someone who is genuine and sincere and cares about the people who support me, and who doesn't forget how lucky I am to be doing what I love.

I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.

All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.