"Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art."

"Nature abhors a vacuum, but not as much as cats do."

"To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy - this is success!"

"The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal--or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be."

"I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?"

"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles."

"Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."

"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."

"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning."

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

"INFLUENCE, n. In politics, a visionary _quo_ given in exchange for a substantial _quid_."

"Shut up he explained."