The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

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

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

There is no gambling like politics.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

Dogs never bite me – just humans.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

History should be written as philosophy.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.