I also was a huge 'Dukes of Hazzard' fan. I used to have T-shirts that said 'Dierks of Hazzard' custom-made.
A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.
The EU is the old Soviet Union dressed in Western clothes
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.
Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U. S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.
Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.
Love needs to be proved by action.