Don't get mad except on purpose.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.

Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.

The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.

You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent.

In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed.

Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Political technology determines political success.

Actions have consequences.

Make the opponents' goal more expensive than it's worth.

My mediocrity is no secret

Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly!

Good and Bad is inside everybody. The difference is that the Good remember when they have also been bad and the Bad remember when they have only been good.

He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

For my family to go on living the way they are living now I can't just die. I've got to die accidentally.

Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.

Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.