Quotes from Bill Vaughan

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

Love me, please, I love you; I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything ... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.

On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.

Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.

One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.

The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.

Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day.

A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.

When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.

If you're involved in an accident and you're at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?

Graphite also absorbs the shock of a hit. The first (graphite) clubs that came out were too flexible, but now you can get them to be just as firm as you want and need.

One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win

Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.

I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

Goal achievement is hero's work.