We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'