Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.

Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.