There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That's when your writing becomes irresistible.

Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why.

I don't know. It's been terribly hard for me. How do I know you won't do it again?''Nobody is ever quite sure of what they will do. You aren't sure what you might do.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act.

If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.

I definitely want to do movies and stuff.

I know why there must be opposition in all things. Adversity, if handled correctly, can be a blessing in our lives. We can learn to love it.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.