Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
Sometimes a man has to go through hell to turn to an angel.
He who angers you conquers you.
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit.
I'm not smart enough to lie.
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade name of the firm, that is all.
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence.
Takers may sometimes eat better, but givers always sleep better.
He preaches well that lives well.
International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.
The pessimist complains about the direction of the wind, the optimist expects the direction to change, but the leader simply adjusts the sails!
An elephant. A mouse built to government specifications.
Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation [...].
Life begins at forty.
Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defence, when it is waging wars of liberation it is sacred; when those of domination it is accursed.
Frustrate a Frenchman, he will drink himself to death; an Irishman, he will die of angry hypertension; a Dane, he will shoot himself; an American, he will get drunk, shoot you, then establish a million dollar aid program for your relatives. Then he will die of an ulcer.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.
Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Sin is like a mountain with two aspects according to whether it is viewed before or after it has been reached: yet both aspects are real.
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.
Peace begins with a smile.
Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Canada is a country built against any common, geographic, historic or cultural sense.
