It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
A lie never lives to be old.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
