It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that mankind ... has about a 50-50 chance...

A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.

Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented.

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics.

When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.

No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

If you are born to lead, be a leader!

It is not the outside of people that bothers me, but the inside.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

and just like that, I shut off the switch to my brain.

Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.

There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.