Archived Quotes

Life is messy,

but beauty is found in the struggle.

It's not that I'm so smart,

it's just that I stay with problems longer.

One of the most striking differences between a cat

and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Peace comes from within.

Do not seek it without.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation

whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,

and you allow him to do so whenever

he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose

and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Progress is a nice word.

But change is its motivator.

I’m not a fan of the status quo.

In math,

you're either right or you're wrong.

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

Training is everything.

The peach was once a bitter almond;

cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

My parents were both born in Virginia,

of undistinguished families

second families,

perhaps I should say.

Christmas is a season for

kindling the fire for

hospitality in the hall,

the genial flame of

charity in the heart.

I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America

and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and

I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go,

I wanted to play.

I did not want to go.

Fan the sinking flame

of hilarity with the

wing of friendship;

and pass the rosy wine.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,

if I did not laugh I should die.

The standard is the standard.

Surround yourself with people who push you to be better.

I think people who have good parents come

into the world with a strength,

and an advantage.

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of

a palace has an animal nature,

rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself,

or to get all the credit for doing it.