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All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

Nothing succeeds like success.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.