It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Sometimes, I just wish.

I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.

I trust my wife more than I trust myself.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.

Hope is like a path in the countryside.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

Does Obama really want his legacy to be, ‘The president who was an even bigger fool than Neville Chamberlain’?

Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything.