There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

Our mind is getting used to believing the blatant lies of crafty people.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. 

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.