Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
Humility neither falls far, nor heavily.
The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief
Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.
Practice is the best of all instructors.
All the great things are simple.
Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.