TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

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 ghosts that exert the most power in people’s lives-at least, the people I know–tend to be of their own making, and consist of equal parts regret and old fears and just plain missing somebody.

Don’t be disappointed, the winning side is not always the right one.

Being original is beautiful. Copying someone is just being a fool

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything.

We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met.

You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.

I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully.

Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do.

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.