History is more or less bunk.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.