Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.