A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Humility is attentive patience.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.