American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

I supported the assault weapon ban.

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.