Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

Strangers are what friends are made of.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.

The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

Just your being here justifies that what I feel for you is strong enough to endure anything.

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list.

I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the best of my ability.

If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure us our rights.

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.

So, just for one more merry day To the great Tree the leaflets clung, Frolicked and danced and had their way, Upon the autumn breezes swung.

We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.

Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.

Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.