He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

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.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Unfortunately, some women want to remake their husbands after their own design.

I'm really happy with everything that I've been fortunate enough to do and with the creative outlets I've been blessed to have.

The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

I meet people every single day who have heard the music and incorporated it into their lives. I feel like I have a tribe all around the world.

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.

The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.

What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.