RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

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.

The more you appreciate and celebrate life with joy, the more abundance will fill your life to enjoy.

Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

The Republican Party has become an ethnic nationalist party.

If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?

To look and feel my best, I watch my calories and exercise.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

I think Putin has already gotten used to the idea of Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry, making noise - it just doesn't seem to impress Moscow at all.

Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through.