I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.
It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets. . . then I got to 'Saturday Night Live' where my boss has unbelievable N. Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with.
God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.
High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.