Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Time is a diminishing factor

That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.

I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce myself.

When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

Rereading, we find a new book.

I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic.

There is nothing at all wrong with having money unless money has you.

Please waste time just playing with your kids!

The odds will always favor the man with a plan