There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.