Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

War would end if the dead could return.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.

The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

We are the guardians of our beings.

All a man can see while looking at the sky are cosmic fossils of thousands and millions of years ago. The only thing an astrologer can predict, is the past.

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

Although the financial crisis, you know, receded a while ago, we kind of never picked up on it.

Somewhere in there, among the worries, questions, advice and advertising jingles, lives your intuition, your true 'inner voice.' You can hear it to the extent that you give it your attention.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.