Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

Every assignment has a natural and supernatural aspect

Tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance character and character hope.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger.

The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.

The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.