"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water."

"In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate."

"While we don't have much say over the desires that we have, we certainly can decide which we prefer-and then search for ways to act on that basis."

"If voters don't have a stomach for me, they can get one of those blow-dried guys."

"Good questions outrank easy answers."

"Take something you love, tell people about it, bring together people who share your love and help make it better. Ultimately, you'll have more of whatever you love for yourself and for the world."

"Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright."

"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language."

"Language is like a crack'd kettle on which we beat out tunes to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity."

"Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?"

"Deus ex machina [A god from the machine]"

"Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper."