The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $724,000.

I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it is watching TV.

People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth.

He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his hands. But he squanders money. Thank God for it.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.