I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice.

Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!'

One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

History is the devil's scripture.

God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

'Tis strange the miser should his cares employ To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy; Is it less strange the prodigal should waste His wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. - Inaugural Address.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Don't try to force chemistry between two people or else it may just blow up at you.

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

No one wants advice -- only corroboration.

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.