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When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.