Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.

On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment.

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

Go out and speak for the inarticulate and the submerged.

Business is the most exciting game.

Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.

No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy.

We've had a day of great drama and of humour too. The rumour mill is now taking over

You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.

Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.

The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.