Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.
The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.
If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.
I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.