There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

For me, writing is just as much a choice as breathing. I can quit anytime I want, but not starting again would prove fatal.

Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.

The Cuban public is hugely cinephile. It's a shame that most of the movie theaters are so deteriorated. The sense of spectacle has been lost a little, but even so, people continue to go.

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

Suggestion is a literary strategy.

People are sophisticated viewers, as evidenced by the risks that are taken in cable television, and I think network has to do the same thing.

We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

Make it so today is not like yesterday and tomorrow will be different FOREVER.