It's all right to be disillusioned, but you can't be disillusioning.

I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.

You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it.

It is only fair to admit, however, that my batting average in the crystal ball league is point, zero, zero, zero.

More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!

The thing about George Barrol is that he's always putting his own and other people's feet into things that had best be left quite free of feet.

There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.

Nobody's ever decided what success is, out here.

If you know the dark, you find it has a light of its own to let you see.

Men ruin cars. That's one of the things every woman knows.

bitterness hardly cares what food it eats.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame...

The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do.

On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

Healthy people live with their world.

Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.

If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.

I think I'm a happy man, and I'm a blessed man. I have been able to adjust to any situation, whatever it was, in my life.

Every city is a living body.

It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.