The attitude among the people I knew was, 'Fleur wants to be a singer' but it was never, 'Go for it. You can do it.' Everyone was cynical because we'd never seen anyone where we came from do it.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.Even longer, ' Pooh answered.” Winnie-the-Pooh

If I judged anybody I wouldn't have any friends.

My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician.

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.

I just have a sense that Obama's not going to ultimately succeed in totally transforming America into something other than how it was founded.

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.