Though such authority and respect shouldn't be handed to all and sundry, have in caution's innermost room a confidant, a faithful mirror, whose correction you value when disillusionment is necessary.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Be first the master of yourself

The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.

Knowledge without courage is sterile.

If not in the moment, where do you propose to live?

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

Within our family there was no such thing as a person who did not matter. Second cousins thrice removed mattered.

To me, the media in New York and LA have always missed the essence of this country.

That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.

How often have I tried just hard enough so that I can then say to myself that I tried with the real purpose of assuaging my guilt about something I did not wish to succeed in the first place?

And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy but I realized I didn't stack up to the list myself.

Nurture your own confidence and make it real; don't pretend to be someone you're not.

There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan.