You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways--but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

Gefarhrgeist excelled at convincing themselves. It was their greatest strength and most terrible weakness.

In your heart of hearts, I believe all of you around this table know what this country needs.

I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

When the silent majority opens its mouth, it is usually to yawn.

Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect.

Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.

Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created.

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control! O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers! O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!