The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers. The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.