Feb. 9, 1999 Dear Friend, Without your previous support, Bill Clinton and I would not have won our victories for the American people in 1992 and 1996. ... And to win in 2000, I need you by my side.

I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message: They hope it's my last.

You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.

A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.