Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. And sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right timeor never.

To ennoble is to diminish by robbing people of their complexity, their completeness, of their humanity, which is always clouded by what gets stirred up at the bottom.

Everything existed at God’s command.

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty.

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

In a collective society, everybody's business is everybody's business.

If time is money/ I'm an hour past paid

You a lame so yo dame playin mind games; I'm a pimp so I stay in that mind frame.

Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.