For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.

The most beautiful girl on earth is the one with a golden heart

We can do great things only by the divine grace.

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

During the 60's, drug use was in fashion in the U.S.

May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

A bowler can make or break a chap.

I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.