Tom Lehrer

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.