These people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur naturally.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.

We're not sexists, we're chauvinists - we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want.

End results that work that don’t involve government threaten liberals.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!

I think cigars are just a tremendous addition to the enjoyment of life.

The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.

In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

The passion to teach, to share deeplyexperienced “lessons from life, ” is embedded in all literature.

Crossing the Fens by boat there comes the realisation that water not earth or sky is the natural element in this landscape.

Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

Could she *be* anymore out of my league?

Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.