All goodness is as nothing compared to the goodness of truth; all sweets are an nothing compared to the sweetness of truth. The bliss of truth surpasses all other joys in the world.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Eugene McCarthy

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Eric Hoffer

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

Francis Beaumont

I play in the low 80's. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

Joe E. Louis

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Simone Weil

The soul needs beauty for a soul mate. When the soul wantsthe soul waits

U2

The best revenge is massive success.

Frank Sinatra

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

Missy Elliot

Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Denis Diderot

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

Pat Oliphant