If you wants to get elected president, you'se got to think up some memoraboble homily so's school kids can be pestered into memorizin' it, even if they don't know what it means.

In like a dimwit, out like a light.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us.

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.

Every burden is a blessing.

Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

Looking back on things, the view always improves.

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Arrogance and a teachable spirit are mutually exclusive.

Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul, because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.

I loved Bonny, and I always prayed that God would sneak in there and get a little light in her life.

Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop.

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

I don't think that the Soviet Union and China are accidents, aberrations; I think they follow from Marxism-Leninism. I think that Leninism comes out of Marx's basic convictions.

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment.