Politics is show business for ugly people.
My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was there and I saw the connection that Clinton made with people, and the connection that they made with him.
If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie.
It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.
Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
People are either born hosts or born guests.
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.