Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.

You simply cannot hang a millionaire in America.

Thomas! What are you doing!" and I gestured, "I thought this was Nothing, " covering myself with one of my daybooks, and she said, "It's Something!

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

It's a recipe for disaster.

When I started off in DC, you didn't get viral first. You got funny first.

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch.

Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.