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.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.