The war. . . was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
Don't misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.
I can replace things, but I could never replace my wife and kids.