That's what I love about being mayor. Even if the problem is getting the cat out of the tree - from that to the biggest problem, you're in charge. No ambiguity. Leaders lead.

We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.

When you are an executive, my friends, that is not leadership.

I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody.

The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.

I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.

When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views.

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

The more I see and hear, the more I realize how much I don't know.

Giving never moves in a straight line - it always moves in circles.

Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera?

Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement.

I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.