Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'

Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.

There are only two kinds of people in the world, suckers and people that can be had. Everyone can be had, but a sucker will always bet you $50 that he can't be had. Maybe magicians are around to remind us we can all be had, so we don't become suckers.