Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Freedom is from within.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.