You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.