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.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.