“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

“But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

“Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”

“Television today is constantly grabbing at your attention, pounding at you. You become just pummeled with information, and you become deadened. The images and the cinema become part of a junk-image world, a junk-image society. You’re not going to feel for anything and that means you’re not going to want to do anything.”

“We live in a thicket of senses and symbols, rather than in a world of facts.”

“Fool me once…shame on…shame on you. Fool me…you can’t get fooled again.”

“As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don’t know we don’t know.”

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

“When I realized I was going to have to be a whore, to put my face on the label, I decided that the only way I could do it was to give away all the money we make. Over the years, that ethical stance has given us a 30% boost. One in three customers buys my products because all the profits go to good causes and the rest buy the stuff because it is good.”

“We need to counter the shock wave of the evildoer by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates.”

“Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is and still not caring.”

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his NOT understanding it.”

“Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.”

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”

“At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”