When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
The U. S. has perverted the U. N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. . . . The U. S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.
The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.
Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.
Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong.