You always pass failure on the way to success.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.