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

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.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Once you label me you negate me.

Sunlight is painting.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Freedom is from within.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

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

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

A lie never lives to be old.

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