I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.
How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.
If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.
Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’re ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardest
The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.
A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs
The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.
How can a president not be an actor?
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
. . . I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on a wall. If you examine a life, as Socrates has been so tediously advising us to do for so many centuries, do you really examine a life, or do you examine the shadows it casts on other lives? Entity or relationships? Objective reality or the vanishing point of a multiple perspective exercise? Prism or the rainbows it refracts? And what if you're the wall? What if you never cast a shadow or rainbow of your own, but have only caught those cast by others?
I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.