We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
A fundamental goal of U.S. policy towards Latin America (and elsewhere), long-standing and well-documented, is to take control of the police and military so as to assure that the population will not act upon unacceptable ideas.
I lie and tell you I had a dream about you last night, so it makes it more socially acceptable to reach out to someone I haven’t spoken to in years.
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
Love truth, but pardon error.
Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker’s next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now?
The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn’t got money.
A good conscience is a continual feast.
I may find Saddam Hussein’s regime abhorrent – any normal person would – but the survival of it is in his hands.
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.
If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared.
[on his acting career] All the new people you meet, it’s pretty amazing. The vampire needs new blood. And there is still a lot to learn and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful.
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
I think our Russian Football Union must play an active part in thisÂ… and develop a new generation of sportsmen and soccer players.
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
There’s always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
