I'll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.

When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, "Two and two still make four, and you can't keep humankind down for long."

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.