When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

Strangers are what friends are made of.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.

The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

Batterers aren't renowned for taking responsibility for their abusiveness, Sam. They tend to shed blame like a snake molts.

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person.

Atheism is easy in fair weather.

Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)

What inspires me is when I see something and I say, "I can do that too!"

You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.