A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
Long before, and fully independent of, anything Congress did, President Obama made clear that he was going to preserve the indefinite detention system at Guantanamo even once he closed the camp. President Obama fully embraced indefinite detention - the defining injustice of Guantanamo - as his own policy.
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.
Rahul Gandhi does not know Indian culture, so when he went to offer prayers at Kashi Vishwanath temple, he sat in a position as if he was offering namaaz.
President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.
Trump has long said he favors a 'safe zone' in Syria to prevent Basher al Assad's regime from carrying out indiscriminate airstrikes against Syrian civilians and to halt the refugee flow out of Syria.
Kurt Vonnegut said, 'The best of Bob and Ray is virtually indistinguishable from the worst.' I'm sure he meant that as a compliment.
The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
I've always thought of Denys Finch Hatton as a combination of Hubbell Gardner from 'The Way We Were' and Jeremiah Johnson. He is this ultimate individualist.
Robben is more of a one-on-one individualist. He's a player who can decide a game.
One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is unable to be of much use. The aim is to render him powerless.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
