She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.

Well done is better than well said.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

You can do anything you set your mind to.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

I'm very political. I'm not political in public I'm political at home.

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

If you no longer have any income, you will not be neglected-you will not starve to death. . . . We panic at first, but God does not always allow the evil that is feared to happen.

In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.