Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

My only regret is that I don't have more to regret.

Every man is a genius, for God exists in all men.

The massive debt we have racked up to finance our wasteful government is pulling down growth today. Gross debt over 90 percent of GDP weakens growth now. Not tomorrow - now.

The 'music' is not an open court and a fair trial.

I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

If you're a bird... I'm a bird.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

I'm still getting my exercise at five o'clock in the morning, that's good. So far I've managed to hold on to a bike ride on Saturday or Sunday morning, probably at least two weekends out of three.