"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory."

"A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books."

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

"The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled."

"March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters."

"Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too."

"Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy."

"To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife."