Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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.