Norman Douglas

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.