The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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 tell everyone who asks me about writing...almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending, but it's that 290 or so pages in between that are tough!

The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.

In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation.

An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply low rental.

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.

Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.

Buy less, buy better, and really wear it.