"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."

"Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise."

"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."

"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

"Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up."

"One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt."

"You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading."

"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."