Quotes by John Williams

• I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.
• My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
• So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.
• The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.
• Life is like a piano, what you get out of it depends on how you play it.
• It's not the future that you're worried about, it's the staircase you have to climb towards it; take the next step with confidence!
• Life is what happens when you're busy making plans – often tangled in the fine print.