The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.