I am MacWonder one moment and MacBlunder the next.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Most of our people have never had it so good.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

I'd like that translated, if I may.

It only makes sense to me when I can get in trouble for it. – Maya

If you can’t believe then you can’t achieve and belief is intrinsic to every human

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

What we have lived through, the 20th century, has been like a great party. Adults now have had the best time humanity has ever had. Now the party is over and the Earth is reckoning up.

I'm not your friend, my lady. I'm your lover.

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

Happiness is meant to be shared.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.