Behavior is not just a reaction, it's a communication.

The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can never be doubted until the right of a tyrant to kill a nation has been proved.

"Die Kunst des Schreibens besteht darin, die Welt so zu beschreiben, wie sie ist, und gleichzeitig so, wie sie sein könnte."

"You gotta risk it to get the biscuit."