The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.

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.

Make peace with yourself before you move forward. Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.

We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.

The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot

Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.

Start believing bigger, dreaming bigger & expecting bigger.

Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.

All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.