I don’t do quagmires.
Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.
One of your tasks is to separate the “personal” from the “substantive.” The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.
Leave the President’s family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.
Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
Any 20 year-old who isn’t a liberal doesn’t have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn’t a conservative doesn’t have a brain.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
The most dangerous people are those who have passion but lack wisdom.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
