The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten it turns into a gnawing worm.
People forget... that we structured it so that the government or the people would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out that aspect of TARP that's what happened.
Everything government touches turns to crap.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on I go to the library and read a good book.
I believe in Karma. If the good is sown the good is collected. When positive things are made that returns well.
Worry - a God invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite and turns the hair gray.
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Being funny it turns out is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you you are fine.
When freedom does not have a purpose when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women when it does not listen to the voice of conscience it turns against humanity and society.
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
I was at a party and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office and I did a 'Ready Set Cook' with Emeril Lagasse I believe.
Years may wrinkle the skin but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry fear self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Of course Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world but these films are exceptions judging from box office returns and press reviews.
I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure and then if it turns up roses then I'm psyched.