“Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.”

September tries its best to have us forget summer.

Few things move as quietly as the future.

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

Americans are optimists. They hope they’ll be wealthy someday – and they’re positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody’s weakness.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

I like the word “indolence.” It makes my laziness seem classy.

Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.

The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.

Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

When you start getting into a full-band, democratic context the little things almost immediately get thrown out the window because you don’t think they’re important.

Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world – even if it is conservative and disagreeable – and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green.

I used to be a Democrat, now I’m basically a Republican.

The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.