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

I went to my son's graduation this weekend and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

For if a good speaker never so eloquent does not see into the fact and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles but a good deal about their acts.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

A good deed never goes unpunished.