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

There is so much that people take for granted.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

I am not a televangelist.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

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

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.