Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.

You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.

Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it.

What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.

I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations.

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

I am not trendy. I am not 'in fashion.' I am simply a positive human being who has a positive outlook on life.

I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.

I have only had positive interactions in relation to my impressions of people, which I'm happy because I do them with love, and I hope that the people who I do them of really like them.

I feel like science and art are cousins.

Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.

You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.

I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.

My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.

I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and grow my own kale and stuff, but in real life, I think I might be very bored after four days.

Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.

I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.

Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.

Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions.

We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

I always say centered food equals centered behavior.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.