I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

J. Russel Lynes

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Hunter S. Thompson

I'm sorry you are wiser, I sorry you are taller; I liked you better foolish and I liked you better smaller.

Aline Murray Kilmer

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

Mark Twain

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

Marco Rubio

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Euripides

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.

George Santayana

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. Theylay there and looked at each other. Their families came andtook them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence,they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to eachother. One of them looked at the other and said, So. What didyou think?

Steven Wright

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Bernard De Voto

An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

Oscar Levant

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

David Cronenberg