Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

A thick skin is a gift from God.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.

Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

God designed the stomach to eject what is bad for it but not the human brain.

We all live under the same sky but we dont all have the same horizon.

First make yourself unpopular, then you will be taken seriously.

If I get any private time in my trailer, all of a sudden I'm doing sit-ups and push-ups.

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.

Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

I work for a place that's been great to me over the years, and when you make a mistake, you're hurting your company as well.

I only tweet if I discover something that's fantastic, or if I heard something really great.

Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.

I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.

The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.

Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.

I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.

The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

The Jews' fear of assimilation and intermarriage should not replace fear of anti-Semitism.

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

When people go to work they shouldnt have to leave their hearts at home.

I commuted to the prestigious Hibiya High School from my uncle's home in Tokyo. During the high school years, I developed an interest in chemistry, so upon graduation, I chose to take an entrance examination for the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kyoto, the old capital of Japan.

Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company we work for or the politicians we vote for.

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.