He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils.
“In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.”
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
The thought of only being a creature of the present and past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. the desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. lies will pass into history.
"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it."
Where there is nothing, there is God.
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.
Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
I was a hip kid. When I saw Bambi it was the midnight show.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.
I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.
Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.
“Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.”
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.