Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world. Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 05-01-05

Some of my friends support the measure, and some of my friends oppose it. I support my friends. Everett Dirksen, Answering a question about a controversial senate bill. Quoted on a political talk show on WBEZ FM in...

I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility. Everett Dirksen

[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon?laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution?these can lift at a colossal humbug?push it a little?weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at...

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. Norm Papernick

I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking. Dorothy L. Sayers

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Joe Lewis

A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance. Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval