Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way a midget is good at being short.

She applies her lipstick in spite of its contents: "greasy rouge, containing crushed and dried insect corpses for coloring, beeswax for stiffness, and olive oil to help it flow - the latter having the unfortunate tendency to go rancid several hours a

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

Every person, all the events in your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

I used to be a rebel in my youth. This cause... that cause... (chuckle) I backed 'em ALL! But I learned. Rebellion is simply a device used by the immature to hide from his own problems. So I lost interest in politics. Now when I feel aroused by

The great secret in life ... [is] not to open your letters for a fortnight. At the expiration of that period you will find that nearly all of them have answered themselves.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Free Speech Is The Right To Shout 'Theater' In A Crowded Fire.