The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Never like seein' strangers. Guess it's cause no stranger ever good newsed me.

I'm just working class. I can pay the bills most of the time, usually from royalties.

It doesn't matter if you are model or not; confidence is something that comes from inside.

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

The dedication of this book is split seven ways: to Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne, and to you, if you have stuck with Harry until the very end.

The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Even though we are each our own person...we're connected through the same dream! We are Seigaku!

What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.