"Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other."

"I will say this about being an optimist-- even when things don't turn out well, you are certain they will get better."

"One thing the inventors can't seem to get the bugs out of is fresh paint."

"They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order."

"It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you."

"I am from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."

"So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it."

"I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose."

"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

"In war there is no substitute for victory."

"...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall."