When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come.
I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.