We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.