One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.

Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state

One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.

If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks

When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

The pace of events is moving so fast that unless we can find some way to keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today.

I just realized, there is too much of me in me.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Every man who has lived his life to the full should by the time his senior years are reached have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

Kat didn't know what to say. It's good to see you too? Thanks for getting me kicked out? Is it possible you've gotten even hotter? I think I might have missed you?

Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.

My name is George Smoot III, and I AM smarter than a fifth-grader.

Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.

Soup is to the meal, what the hostesses smile of welcome is to the party. A prelude to the goodness to come.