An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.

Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.

You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.

Authenticity matters little, though--our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Generous people are rarely mentally ill.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.