The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

The biggest barrier in communication is that tendency of listening to reply and not to understand.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

I am not "cured"--I know I never will be. I will always crave that pain to keep me centered. I will always be just a little astounded when I get through a crisis without putting a blade to my flesh.

In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

More Weight -Giles Corey-

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.

The day I am afraid to do, that is the day I am no longer fit to lead.

Ricky Gervais is a genius.

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.