American Quotes

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Action is the antidote to despair.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.

She's generous to a fault - if it's her own.

She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.