Democracy is a system that gives people a chance to elect rascals of their own choice.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.

What would I do to possess her? Would I change my cellular structure? Turn my back on my identity?

If we aren't willing to do whatever is required, " he said finally, "then we risk losing what we have been mandated to protect.

I know that by what I write cannot change the wrong world, but I can change the wrong attitude of the world toward me.

I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it.

I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen.

I came out of Bataan and I shall return!

[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

Even if I'm sad, dancing is a way to let stuff out.

People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age.