Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.
Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.
[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat. I learned to talk in front of people by listening to the way he did things. Because he would give lessons in how to lecture. He would say, "Never take a note, just stand up and start babbling. And then eventually you're going to be able to make some coherent statements, and so it's like you're vamping. And then people will gradually start to listen to you when this spot of logic shows up in this torrent of verbiage.
Dancing came easy to me.