Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
I didn't even breathe.