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It's not what you give, it's the way you give it.
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I'm going to Washington on a fateful, even historic, mission. I feel that I am an emissary of all Israel's citizens, even those who do not agree with me, and of the entire Jewish people
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.
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My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me.
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It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.
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The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-“happiness.†He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.
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I really think I shall commence chapter forty-four," he said, patting his hands together. "I shall commence, I think, with a slight exaggeration and go on from there into an outright lie. Constance, my dear?" "Yes, Uncle Julian?" "I am going to say that my wife was a beautiful woman.
