It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

Did you know, ma'am, that our mutual friend can say "kiss my arse" in six languages?

I once had a complete life - in love, in envy, in pains. Now, I was living a death. A peaceful, gorgeous, liberating death.

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

I learned that real happiness doesn’t come from getting but from giving.

I don't have a girlfriend. No, I don't. I haven't had a relationship in years, actually. But yeah, I'm still looking. It's kind of nice to be looking for a home at the same time.

In the national security establishment, it is somewhat frowned upon for people to take extremely harsh partisan roles in campaigns.

I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.

Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.