Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

No one is blessed to love more than one to the peak level except mother!

A REAL job is a job you hate.

Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.

In every trial Let understanding fight for you.

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

I need physics more than friends.

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.