Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well.

I found myself tumbling down a 2000-foot face and my senses were so reduced. I couldn’t hear anything. It was totally peaceful. I was totally calm.

As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.

Diets don't really work & can be destructive, but if you get healthy overall (mind, body, spirit) then your weight balances naturally.

If children have interests, then education happens.

High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds.

I think we've done a pretty good job staying in touch with the American people. But at a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.

Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

I think there must be safety in numbers. If you f - up enough times, they forget which one you really did. They start thinking, "Well, nobody can be that bad."