The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

But if America falters in greatness and purpose, than Americans are nothing but the offscourings and hungry of other lands.

The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas and all we've been producing is footnotes.

Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence with bravery and mercy.

However smart and determined you are, your life is always going to consist of light and darkness, joy and sadness, good or bad, up and down, yang and yin.

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

I am of Virginia and all my professional life I have studied of Lee and Jackson

The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.

Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.

I'll just have to get it against my favorite team.

Confidence is the best accessory. It can make or break an outfit.

In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.