"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty."

"You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time."

"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war."

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."

"We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job."

"If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

"I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly."

"A theory must be tempered with reality."

"The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane"

"Everything in here is eatable. I'm eatable, but that my children is called cannibalism, and is frowned upon in most societies."