The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

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.

Live a life that leaves a memory, nobody can steal.

You have to let people go. Everyone who's in your life are meant to be in your journey, but not all of them are meant to stay till the end.

There are parts [in Dodd-Frank] that I don't agree with. But, in total, it is what it is.

Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.

You're pissed I laid it out and you're gonna go nurse your snit

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.