The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

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.

I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

In my life, anyway, anytime that I judge something to be rigidly right or wrong, it comes from fear.

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

You're not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it.

I didn't want to get married. What I knew of most men was something I didn't want any part of. I just wanted to work on my career.

The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.

The hardest thing in practice is finding enough time to think about design.

Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

Changing is for weirdos.