Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.
Religion is all bunk.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
No one can look back on his school days and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
The constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that's the way I am.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
If you are an american, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
Man becomes his most creative during war.
They always have to begin by saying fear not.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.