"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."

“We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.”

“This lady is not for turning.”

I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.