The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.

This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.