My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Socialism means slavery.
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don't seem like one of the gods from Olympus. I seem like someone who was lucky enough to be let into Olympus.
It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.