Writers are liars trying to come clean. That’s why the best ones are the most tragic.

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.

Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!

Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!

Wisdom doesn’t come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.

To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.

Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.

The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?

Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.

The brave venture anything.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.

View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome.

In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.

Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it's gone.

I have goals that I want to reach, but you can never plan what's going to happen next.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

To be a saint is to be yourself.