Never mistake motion for action.
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.
You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
In Britain, Christianity is dying. Islam, unfortunately, isn't.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Everyone owes nature a death.
Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.
The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.
There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
...the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
I don't just talk to the dead.
