Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

Strangers are what friends are made of.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.

The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly and [if] there is no situation to face it falls away of its own weight.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances.

Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they become destructive both to themselves and to others.

Accept nothing nearly right or good enough

To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

You're changing, the world is changing, and your hopes and aspirations are regularly being updated. That's why I say this is a life long struggle - for everybody.