An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.
Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"
I've still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What are you doing? Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question. The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living. He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing? The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral. At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?
Your thoughts are making you.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.
Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.
Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
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