Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.

Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.

Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.

Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

At the White House, they caught another fence jumper earlier today. It was Obama trying to get out.

We need loyal people in this country. We need fighters in this country. We don't need weak people. We have enough of them.

One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.

Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher things.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

I always tried to win. I was as competitive as I am today.

Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two to three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide.

All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.