Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Give up trying to make me give up

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.