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.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.