Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.
If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
Where you stand depends where you sit.
There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.
That's the thing about prep, is that it's a joy to have it there and you can spend all this time prepping, but ultimately you have to look at your script and turn up on the day. It's embedded in there somewhere but you have to forget it all and play the scene because we are storytelling.
I have sworn to die painting.
So who's the big red menace nowadays? Cuba. That's it? I'm sorry, but it's hard to whip up any us against them nationalist fervor about a country whose principal export is citizens who can swim.
We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.