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.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

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

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

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

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.