You got to be yourself, you got to discard all the bull and get YOU across ... and get what you have to say across.

In like a dimwit, out like a light.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us.

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.

Every burden is a blessing.

Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

Looking back on things, the view always improves.

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

We reject God when we reject people

There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.

There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were - "a real threat," you know? He thought so and we thought so and we were buddies in that regard.

Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.

Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew?

I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief.

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.