One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Abraham Lincoln

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

Nathaniel Branden

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up -- they have no holidays.

Henny Youngman

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Steve Martin

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

Albert Camus

Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them -- as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.

Ben Hecht

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.

William Shenstone

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Albert Camus

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

Sargent Shriver

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Ken Mason

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

Howard Stern