Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Time can be used to convert anything

What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?

When passion blends with profession it turns into a masterpiece...

I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.

Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.

Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures.

No man can feel himself alone The while he bravely stands Between the best friends ever known His two good, honest hands.

Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.

A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.