A game can by God repent or we'll punish it. That's how they did it in Salem in the seventeenth century, and that's how we'll do it now.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

If God lived on Earth, people would knock out all His windows.

Since everything in life is but an experience perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.

For a light heart lives long.

Beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

"For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off."

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

No group of professionals meets except to conspire against the public at large.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

Life is the living you do, Death is the living you don't do.

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

The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercio

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behaviour.

Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

I'm going to raise an issue and stick it in your ear.

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other can.

Some women should be beaten regularly, like gongs.

Why are you doing this to me? Because knowledge is torture, and there must be awareness before there is change.

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

It's better to be wanted for murder that not to be wanted at all.