In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

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

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to 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.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

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

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

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

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.