The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Henry Cabot Lodge was like medicine, good for you, but hard to take. – Teddy White

I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law.

Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.

Courage conquers all things.

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.