I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. I prefer Hostess fruit pies to pop-up toaster tarts because they don't require as much cooking. Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
Every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
His renown has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure. I used to say that politics was the second oldest profession, and I have come to know that it bears a gross similarity to the first. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder, or takes notes it's impossible. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure. In short, a splendidly exciting game for those who play it.