The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

I’m crepuscular.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

You’ve gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we’re just nice, sort of ‚death by cupcake.‘

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

There are some loony people in this world!

France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‚third force,‘ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.