A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
My home is not a place, it is people.