First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.
Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.
Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.
No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them.
The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and. . . on the whole they tend to be reactionary.