I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

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.

I get into beatific cornucopia when I delve into books, coffee, and wanderings!

Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul’s journeying.

The best thing to gift yourself is to be just YOURSELF, improving above the person that you were yesterday.

As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?

Unusual weather for New York City. Today it was 68 and foggy. No, wait a minute, that's me. I'm sorry, that's me.

I know it's the gentlemanly thing to let the wife file. But, then, everybody knows I'm no gentleman.

Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives