Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Never ever underestimate the importance of having fun.

In the year of 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening, which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life.

Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.

Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.

Listen carefully to yourself. Listen to what you dislike, and you will find most of the imagery is what you have received and registered from other people. We ingest labels from others.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private sector as much as possible, markets do occasionally fail, and when they do government can play a constructive role, as it did in the case of the auto rescue.

I cannot imagine a life in your absence. You are like the breath of air that I need to live, the drop of water in a thirsty desert. I need you like a bird needs the skies to go higher.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

I love taking challenges, as my name Leander means 'lion's heart.'

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

Advice to persons about to marry - don't.

I think many start-ups make mistakes because they are focusing on things that are farther ahead, and they haven't done the work that has built the foundation to support it.

When I went to Gladbach from Basel in 2012, I put a lot of pressure on myself at first, and it was too heavy. I will not put any pressure on myself at Arsenal, even though the transfer fee was high.

To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.

No, we don't own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.

The whole point of corporate mascots is to be distinctive. No one in his right mind would ever confuse the Hamburglar with Mayor McCheese.

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.