We can all be prouder to be human beings, because that's what they were. They make up for a lot of liars, cheats, and terrorists among us.

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

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.

In general, sharing and using things decreases their value. However, knowledge increases by implementation and especially by sharing among people.

Every fit has a misfit. Finding your fit is the path rather than fighting to fit.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.

Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or... or what

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.

John McCain will follow the fanatics to their caves in Pakistan or to the gates of hell. What Obama wants to do is give them a place setting at the table.

You will never become rich, until you hate poverty