I Shall Return!
I realize that advice is worth what it costs – that is, nothing.
I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.
We are not retreating – we are advancing in another Direction
Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door – a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn’t help but lose your passion for dumbness.
Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
I think its the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.
Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Most fashionable commodity in US is going to be old-fashioned common sense and work.
Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain’t that a big enough majority in any town?
If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.
If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
Those unproductive hands may consume so great a share that all the frugality and good conduct of individuals may not be able to compensate this violent and forced encroachment.
Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
One of the hardest things for a parent to have to do is to tell your children that your other parent has died.
