If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."

They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction.