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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
The fights I fought…cost a lot, the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals.
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.
…love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary and said, I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do? Just use copier machine paper, she told him. With that, the intern took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.
