Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.