The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

The only way to convert a heathen is to travel into the jungle.

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.

The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

A question asked in earnest, deserves an earnest answer.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

In a Union of 15 now, you must take into account the sensibilities of everyone.

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.

there are the non-believers, make believers and true believers!