Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin.
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
The gods favor the bold.
It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.
The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.
One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by.