Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

The only way to convert a heathen is to travel into the jungle.

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.

The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

A Red Riding Hood out of her depths in the woods of socialism

I do not respect a person without sadness in their eyes, but i do envy them..

It is not truth but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.

Chili is much improved by having had a day to contemplate its fate.

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.

I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, Youve got everything going for you right now, and I say, Oh yes, but! Which is not a good way to be.