The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Thought is free.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

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

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

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

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.