"The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around."

"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever."

"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there."

"Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angles to San Francisco live there?"

"The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there, it's there."

"All American cars are basically Chevrolets."

"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."

"The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak."

"You can鈥檛 love a crowd the same way you can love a person. And a crowd can鈥檛 love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesn鈥檛 scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon."

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."