A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for his actions.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.

Unrivalled not only in its class, but in a class by itself.

Onward, and up, and up again, until the impossible was achieved, all barriers were broken, all pains conquered, all abilities possessed. Until all was lightning and no darkness left.

Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?

There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below.

Man with a crossbow in the proper position at the proper time’s worth a corps of heavy artillery half an hour late and ten miles down the road from where it should be.

Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.

I am a writer....a master of words.'Like a knife, words should be handled carefully. They can cut deeply, the wound may never heal, and the scar can remain for an eternity.

Old wives' tales have hurt cats. They're not true! Who are those Old Wives?

To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is divine.

Your heart is the face of your spirit, it holds everything you have been, you are, and what you are going to be.

Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.

As president, I will take that work, that bipartisan work, that finding common ground, because you have to be able to get along with people to get things done in Washington.

A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments.

I rode Sea Pigeon in all his work - that's why my arms are so long.

Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.