If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

Loyalty consists of many things, including being truthful with our friends. When you really disagree, you have to say so.