"Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses."

"Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose."

"Technical term is narcissism. You can't believe everything is your fault unless you also believe you're all powerful."

"One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name."

"The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith."

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

"Monsieur l'abb??, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write."

"Man cannot aspire if he looks down; if he rises, he must look up."

"Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry."

"When there's a lot of light, you don't notice the dark. When there's a lot of dark you always notice the light."

"If not for fear, sin would be sweet."

"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."