Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

There must always be a secret to be unwrapped at Christmas—that’s the rule

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation a mental or physical barter to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

People working on climate change should prepare for catastrophic success.

[Bill Clinton] approved NAFTA, which is the single worst trade deal ever approved in this country.

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven,--which when men hear, they think upon heaven's king, and run the items over of the account to which he is sure to call them.

Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.