In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.