It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

The wisest use of these skills is to develop habits, lives, and loves, not to use them just occasionally in single interactions.

I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.

It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.

Who cares if there are lumps on my thighs? I'm guilty of having human legs made up of fat, muscle, and skin, and sometimes when you sit, they get bumpy!

If the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody!

Fade into Bolivian, I guess.

When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own.

Never be put off by your target's anger; it is a sure sign of enslavement.

Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.