When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented his ever setting foot there, but it remains his country.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.

For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

Find out your talents and gifting and invest your whole time into perfecting them and becoming the best of yourself.

Give yourself permission to dream, to choose, to decide.

Roses bloom whether you praise them or not.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again.

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

Mix your drinks, and it's best not to cry over spilt milk, but put it back in the bottle.

I'm going to keep on keeping on as long as I've got my health and strength, and God gives me that will to do it.

I just wanted to say things that women wanted to say, but were afraid to.

I lived a very don't-ask, don't-tell life.