True sorrow is as rare as true love.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

Henry A. Wallace

People don't start wars, governments do.

Ronald Reagan

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

John Jay Chapman

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Walter Lippmann

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Don Knuth

I get up and a button falls off, I pick up my briefcase and the handle falls off I'm afraid to go to the bathroom.

Rodney Dangerfield

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Julius Caesar

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

Alan Alda

It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,' says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good time pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, are always passing away.

Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severi

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess

Martin Luther King Jr.

You can always tell someone to go to Hell tomorrow.

Charlie Munger

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

Jon Meacham