“One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'”

“A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.”

“Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.”

“Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.”

“By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.”

“People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.”

“First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.”

“The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.”

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a ...”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“Some dont want to be happy, inasmuch as they undergo happiness merely as languor and yawning. They are dissatisfied with a bland and vacuous state of glee and, instead, prefer to keep on running li...”

“It is a difficult thingif not impossibleto forgive oneself for foolish errors, not for trampling a life or goring another with sharp horns, but for being the fool who opened the gate and let the bu...”

“Why write, if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bull-fighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile, and two-horned topics?”