In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.

Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal.

Choice, not chance, determines destiny.

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.

Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas: Free every Monday through Friday-knowledge. Bring your own containers.

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

It's not that we don't care--it's just that that we'd prefer not to get involved.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty.

I won't do anything for money. I won't compromise my manhood.

Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.

Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.

Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.