"Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are."

"I don't do this for my health, you understand. I do it for the pain. I *LOVE* the pain!"

"One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not."

"Pride the first peer and president of hell."

"Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil."

"Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home...."

"A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation."

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."

"Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month, other just go over them."

"You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much."