Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Andrew Johnson wasn't too bad, but he was overwhelmed by a hostile Congress.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.
Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.
I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.
There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.
Because I was a dancer when I was a kid, I have so much empathy for these young girls who are so drawn to something lovely in music and in movement, and yet they encounter a world full of judgment and criticism of 11-year-old artists and bodies.
Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.
Weapons of war have no place on our streets
I went down to Miami, and somebody saw me on the streets, and that's how I got into modeling.