Adlai E. Stevenson

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.