The American success formula is first to get a home of your own, then to get a car of your own so you don't have to stay in that home of your own.

Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city, your state and federal authorities, and your wife and children.

We may not always see eye to eye, but we can try to see heart to heart.

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.

The high IQ has become the American equivalent of the Legion of Honor, positive proof of a child's intellectual aristocracy.... It has become more important to be a smart kid than a good kid or even a healthy kid.

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.