Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

Washington is a place where politicians don’t know which way is up and taxes don’t know which way is down.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.