Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
