Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.