It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.