Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
Nothing is black or white.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.