Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?

... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

He had a dashing smile. It nearly dashed right off his face.

When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.

Accuracy is not the measure of a true prophet. You will know the true prophets by their fruit.

I don't stop when I am tired, I stop when I am done

I have read some of [the Lisbon Treaty] but not all of it.

What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it.

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

We must be challenged to improve, and adversity is the challenger.

The Super Bowl now takes on a magnitude that almost defies the imagination.

As much as I'd like to be listening to other things, I can't do that until I get all of this sort of put to bed.

What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!