A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or wha

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

Termiter's argument that God is His own grandmother generated a surprising amount of controversy among Church leaders, who on the one hand considered the argument unsupported by scripture but on the other hand were unwilling to risk offending God's g

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

It's very glamorous to raise millions of dollars, until it's time for the venture capitalist to suck your eyeballs out.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case.

Ain't no right way to do a wrong thing.

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Congs.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Fay: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. Truscott: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

If God wanted us to be brave, why did he give us legs?

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

"If we relied conclusively on scientific data for every one of our findings, I'm afraid all of our work would be inconclusive."

Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.

Once, I read that a man be never stronger than when he truly realizes how weak he is.

There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.

If there is no wind, row.

I'm not a lovable man.

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush!