This is why you shouldn’t hire your friends. It’s all nice and professional until the insubordination starts. She sighed.

Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.

Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness.

I also drink Scotch. But I'm not picky. I'll take the victory Scotch, or the Scotch of defeat. Or the rotgut swill.

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions and progress. Followers think and talk about the problems and negative criticism

When asked to borrow money: "I'll see what my lawyer says. . . . And if he says yes I'll get another lawyer."

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren.

Today, with computer-generated visual effects, everything is possible. So we've seen everything. If it can be imagined, it can be put on screen.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.

It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.