I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

By words the mind is winged.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it.

We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.

We do not draw red lines unless we intend to carry them out. We have made very clear that we are willing to work with China, and we believe China has tried to be helpful.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

In my heart are the deeds my body has done and my heart has been weighed in the balance.

I started modeling myself on [ Buckminster Fuller], like with the hair. I reached an age where I sort of, kind of, looked like him a little bit, you know? I thought it was great.

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.

The word is the making of the world