There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

You don't appreciate a faithful husband when you've got one, ' said Tommy.'All my friends tell me you never know with husbands, ' said Tuppance.'You have the wrong kind of friends, ' said Tommy.

Most kids act out because they want your attention. Don't spank your child show them some attention.

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.

We are limited only by our lack of creativity. Our buildings should symbolize the exuberance of a free nation that encourages individual effort and creativity.

Prior to the meeting, there was a prayer. In general, in the United States there was always praying.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

Couldn't Lissa have healed that black eye away?" "Its a badge of honor. Makes me seem manly.

In order to forgive, you must have blamed.