"It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured."

"I understand life isn't fair, but why couldn't it just once be unfair in my favor?"

"Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment."

"If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time."

"The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it."

"Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners."

"Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal."

"There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators."

"Civility costs nothing and buys everything."

"Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy."

"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on."

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece."