Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.