The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

It is wise to do what you love.

Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.

Opposition is not there to stop you, it’s there to establish you.

The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come.

New York is a different breed than any other city there is. Media can be very hard on you at times, but [Patrick Ewing] did handle it like a man. He was able to prosper in that whole atmosphere.

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.

Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender?

Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.

Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.