Im afraid Wisconsin is you, Nebraska, only with much better parties and more wins.
The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.
The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.
People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.
We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.
the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.
As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.
I like comedy a lot. I love comedy. It's so much fun, but it's hard, too.
The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.
If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.