Its not only the most difficult thing to know ones self, but the most inconvenient. – Josh Billings
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. – Josh Billings
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. – Josh Billings
There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. Its a difficult game, but it doesnt have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests – lobbies they call them in the States. – George Papandreou