I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

Facts are not interesting to me.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Dissents speak to a future age.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

There is no gambling like politics.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

When I arrived, at first a lot of people were like, ‚This kid is different.‘