Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about... If you want to get along, go along.

Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws.

There's no education in the second kick of a mule

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't.

If you want to get along, go along.

You know how they say the path to hell is paved with good intentions? Well, maybe the path to heaven is paved with bad ones.

You are capable beyond measure.

People who read always have something interesting to say.

I have voted to legalize recreational incarnations. We should no longer jail people in a body just because they have chosen to incarnate in this dimension for fun. Are you guys with me on this one?

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy

You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words.

I knew that I was naturally good at [therapy] because I was kind of that person in my circle of people in my life.

For me, the Internet is the opposite of memory; the Internet is amnesia, it's about today and tomorrow is another day. Printed issues are about recording time, leaving a trace and making it relevant.

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.

In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.