Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.