My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

The only way to convert a heathen is to travel into the jungle.

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion, or just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

Scientists found that there are exactly as many skin pigment colors to the various races of this world as there are different colors of soil [dirt].

those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.

It's just that you are practiced at persuading, and sometimes it's quite difficult, sir to distinguish being persuaded by you from being knocked down in street and stamped on.Pg.406

How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.

Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.

It's a slam-dunk case!

I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight.

When the darkness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.