Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.

Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's steak tartare and make cheeseburger out of it. Upon seeing the film, they say, the author promptly cuts his throat, bleeding to death in a pool of money.