One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

His (Lincoln's) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God.

I like to remind myself that every morning I'm making a choice to live.

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.

I think more important than law is the hearts of people.

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not seeing that in America.

Investing isn’t risky; not being in control is risky.

Cause you mean the world to me, you are my everything; I swear the only thing that matters, matters to me.