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“My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters.”
Source : Colleen Hoover (2013). “Hopeless”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
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“I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.”
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“There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest...”
Source : "History of the Republic of the United States of America".
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“The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors....”
Source : Des Moines Sunday Register, January 06, 1980.
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“There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.”
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“The best revenge is living well.”
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“There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.”
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“But I don't work out. I pay people to do that for me.”
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“A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.”
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“The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.”
