One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

Giving is the only way to receive more.

Summon your inner courage to ensure you strive unhindered - toward your chosen goals.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.

Methodology is applied ideology.

You are here to do something you are uniquely created for. No one else can do it like you can, that's why you're here

Women say they want a man who knows what a woman's worth. That's a pimp.

No one cares about it more than you. Give it the attention it needs.

If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.