I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

How you think about your customers influences how you respond to them.

The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us, ' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel.

Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.

The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.

In C++, reinvention is its own reward.

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

It's better to be pissed off than pissed on.

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.