Brand equity doesn't change based on economic considerations.

Why should one hate you when you were so small? Could you be worth hating?

The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.

Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David?

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

our lives are stories we tell ourselves.

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.

He's the president. I'm the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.