Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.