"Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day."

"To read your own poetry in public is a kind of mental incest."

"How soon was it that the dead are brought to deity in the eyes of those who in life found them little regard."

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."

"There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain."

"We must always have old memories and young hopes."

"The game of life is not much in holding a good hand, as in playing a poor hand well."

"Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months."

"Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war."

"There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible but morally mandatory."

"I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death."

"Only when the last tree has been cut down Only when the last river has been poisoned Only when the last fish has been caught Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."