Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.

Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

The faith I was born into formed me.

I want to be a living work of art.

I don't think I've played a lot of crazy people.

When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in everything.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.

Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.