"Thank God I have done my duty."

"You can't organize clutter."

"God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways."

"It is kind of strange watching your personal history become costume."

"Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence."

"People always tell you that when you grow old you will lose your mind. What they fail to tell you is how little you'll miss it."

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."

"When you give up drinking, you have to deal with that wonderful personality that started you drinking in the first place."

"To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce."

"I must be cruel, only to be kind:Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."

"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt."

"Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation."