I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Each soul is potentially divine.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

A person preaches well that lives well.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.