You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.

The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.

I love seeing guys on the worst possible day and watching them scramble.

What man is, only history tells.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.

Religious liberty should mean religious liberty for everyone, employees as well.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.