If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.