Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
Our economic assistance must be carefully targeted, and must make maximum use of the energy and efforts of the private sector. . . Economic freedom is the world's mightiest engine for abundance and social justice. . . Developing countries need to be encouraged to experiment with a growing variety of arrangements for profit sharing and expanded capital ownership.
Change is inevitable. Progress is optional.
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.