The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
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.
My head rang like a gong.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.