. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained.

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

Britain is China's best partner in the West.

You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard.

Every class is unfit to govern.

Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.