- I come from a great family. I’ve seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.
- To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
- It’s only when you’re alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.
- All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives – I think it’s really sad.
- My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.
- Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
- Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.
- Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
- The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it’s a joke, a blot on American history.
- To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
- Arafat was a barrier to peace.
- We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
- A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‘I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.’
- The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man’s being, unfolding itself in thought.
- I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.
- Your library is your paradise.
- Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
- I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.
- The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.
- There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
- Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. ‘Don’t bother us with politics’, respond those who don’t want to learn.
- Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
- David and Dad didn’t get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn’t going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they’re like best friends.
- We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
- I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I’m too classy to bring that up.
- I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.
- Never wear anything that panics the cat.
- Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
- A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
- Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
- Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.
- To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
- One man with courage is a majority.
- One faces the future with one’s past.
- Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.
- Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
- In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- The idea of trying to create things that last – forever knowledge – has guided my work for a long time now.
- Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.
- There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.