Knaves will come and knaves will go.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.

Islands are reminders of arrivals and departures.

Even marginal progress could be affected by investigations in Little Rock and in Washington.

Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.

Before we give the government any more money, show us some receipts.

I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were young idealists who worked on his campaign.

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

We're prosperous enough that we can afford to have one in six able-bodied men of working age sitting at home playing video games.

Just because you're good at something, does that mean you're born to do it?

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.