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Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt -- O, marvelous error -- That there was a beehive here inside my heart And the golden bees were making white combs And sweet honey from all my failures.
I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond.
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
When you see John Boehner crying, believe you me, it's because he cannot control, uh, that wild contingency called the Tea Party.
What is required for many of us, paradoxical though it may sound, is the courage to tolerate happiness without self-sabotage.
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.
I remember being a student, and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.
People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.
I would love to believe that my political judgment is impeccable, but it's not.
I always liked Barbara Howar and admired her spunk. I know that she considered me - and Alice Roosevelt Longworth - an exception to her negative feelings about Washington widows and single women, whom she basically found dispensable.
Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living.
Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.
It's not that I think every late 19th-century man with a beard who saw something shimmering in front of him was actually seeing his dead aunty. What I'm saying is: lighten up. This isn't weird stuff. It's interesting.
If you enter the World Bank office in Washington, D.C., you will see written on the left wall, 'The purpose of the World Bank is to fight poverty with passion.' I had it put up there because I wanted something that unites us as an institution.
I just want to be the greatest man that I can be while I'm alive, and in that, you have to find the truth. Find the hard truth about yourself.
