I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
The sexy magazine in Britain in that time was called Club International. Club International: It was about as international as the International House of Pancakes. It should have been called Naked Cockney Girls with Scurvy.
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
I am very proud of the critical role West Virginians play in providing energy to our nation.