Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

I’m not so sure innocence exists anymore.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

I am representing here – the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that’s why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence

I don’t need money, or, better, it’s not money that I need; it’s not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

I wish we were seventeen So I could give you all the innocence That you give to me

Don’t impersonate. Innovate.

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom

When we’re willing to see the innocence in another person even when he or she has behaved without love toward us, we activate the Law of Divine Compensation.

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory.

Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I’d like to be

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being

That’s the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.