Idealist: a cynic in the making.

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything."

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

I am not a cynic.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it.

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

I'm an old cynic.

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I'm a hopeful cynic.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

Don't let reality, get in way of your dreams.

Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.

And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.

You may have a broken heart but you may find someone else.

Hypocrites do the devils drudgery in Christs livery.

Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.

Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it.

Blame is a change avoidance strategy.

If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.

Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.

Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.

I'm having a hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

The only difference between success and failure is Lack of Vision.

And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.

I trained for about a year before I had my first amateur fight. I won by knockout, and then, for my second fight, the guy didn't even show up.

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.

War may make us great, but let it never be forgotten that peace only can make us both great and free.