I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

Stay humble and inherit greatness, wise and inherit eternal life

Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

Teach your heart that this is destiny

They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.

If and when you do decide to share your experience with your husband, it should be because you feel ready to do so, not for any other reason.

Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.