"How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?"

"If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for."

"Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it."

"I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing."

"Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience."

"As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything."

"I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.'"

"One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can."

"Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life."

"i like to have a martini, two at the very most - at three i'm under the table, at four, i'm under the host!"

"Guess again."

"The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you."