Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.