There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.

I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.

I don't drink because I have problems or I want to escape. I just love drinking and being drunk.

LOL has turned into something you type when you have nothing better to add into a conversation.

When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.

I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

Knight without fear and without reproach.

The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.

God’s grace does not require a condition to abound. However to obtain the promises of his blessings, you have to strive for it, fight for it, work hard for it and insist upon it.

There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.

Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln

In the first two years, when I had a strong majority in the House and the Senate, we were as productive as any administration has been since the '60s. I mean, we got a lot done.

Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.

Even people within a relationship can be really alone, and then have to go outside of it in order to find something, whatever it is. It may be very bizarre and maybe something very tender.

God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.

Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet!

Almost all the voices in history have been men, but on this one question of gender, men don't talk about it. This has nothing to do with women; it has to do with men.