We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.