To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.

Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.

Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.

Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs Were twisted gracefu' round her brows, I took her for some Scottish Muse, By that same token, An' come to stop those reckless vows, Would soon be broken.

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves. -Unkown.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth; His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles, His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate, His tears pure messengers sent from his heart, His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.

All of us are crazy in one way or another.

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.