I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.

If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways.

There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.

The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

We are animals and as animals we kill to survive. Unfortunately some of us are monsters and kill just because they can.

Amanda learned a valuable lesson. Everything happens for a reason and in the end, you will be happy.

Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.

I do not know two finer people and could not imagine better news. May your lives together be happy and long. Congratulations, brother.

When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.

I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't.

Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

I can very much relate to waking up inside of your life and saying to yourself, "How did I get here?"

I say long and lean as opposed to tall, because you could be 5 four and look long and lean.

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.