“I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.”

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.

Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it.

Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.

You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.

Half of politics is “image-making”, the other half is the art of making people believe the image.

You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.