African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.

Republicans think that [Ted] Cruz would be like Barry Goldwater. He'd lose in a landslide and pull the party down with him. They'd lose Senate and House seats.

As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.

Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.

For a long time, many Republicans thought if they just took two aspirin and laid down, [Donald] Trump would go away.

Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.

While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.

Ted Cruz is a small-government conservative.

The GOP establishment, in particular, is facing a pick-your-poison kind of decision. Many establishment Republicans dislike [Ted] Cruz personally. He has no Senate endorsements.

Republicans like Trent Lott, saying [Donald] Trump would be more flexible [then Ted Cruz].

I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee

Objects of charity are not guests.

Things couldn't stay the same forever.

But I don't want to be a pirate!

A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.

Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity.

I guess I have a strong constitution.

Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as we can see them as typical of the human condition.