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I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

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

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived.

Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.

Many gloat over their own troubles.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.