I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.

I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.