The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

"They [The New York Times] are so anti-Bush now that they won't even use words in the crossword puzzle that have a "W" in it."

"There is a fundamental difference between that which is 'not found' and that which is 'found not to exist.' If I look for something and fail to find it, this does not mean that the thing I am seeking does not exist. Not seeing a thing is not the same as seeing its non-existence."

"I've come to the conclusion that roughly 50 percent of the adults in this country are simply too ignorant and functionally incompetent to be living in a free society"

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

"Political Correctness is a doctrine which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

"Everything is new if you are ignorant of history. That is why ideas that have failed repeatedly in centuries past reappear again, under the banner of ‘change,’ to dazzle people and sweep them off their feet."

"Now tell me what else I can't do."

"...they're just nonsense words, like 'rama lama ding dong', or give peace a chance."

"But maybe he's only a little crazy; like painters or composers or... some of those men in Washington."

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there."

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.