If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.