Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

Though the computer can correct anything, a bad image is a bad image.

A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

My fighting spirit has often seemed out of place.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.