God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

[George W. Bush] has balls. And he's a leader. Unfortunately his balls and leadership are in the service of shitty ideas. We need his balls on someone who thinks right.

Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me.

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

The only way to make real wealth is to get rid of your salary. In a salary, by definition, you are creating wealth for others, and you are creating a chain and handcuffs for yourself.

What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit.

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.