The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.

The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

It's hard enougth to find intelligent life right here in Washington!

As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.

I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.

I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.

The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.

To liberate yourself from your own self-judgment is to liberate others from it as well. To love yourself is an act of love for the world.

Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

You’ve got mountains of your own, I’ll bet on it. Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast. Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better grip than you realize.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

Your Lord is bountiful to mankind: yet most of them do not give thanks.

The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.