I don't like food that's too carefully arranged it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

I'm a competitive person but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.

The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome

There is not going to be any pass for Palestinian leadership in fighting terror.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask?

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.