When they remain silent, they cry out.

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 hope some day we will learn to use the power of love, not the power of gun and world will see the universal peace.

Be driven with purpose. Be relentless in your alignment with excellence. Pay no mind to the disimpassioned impotent haters.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

I write the books I want to read. I'm interested in seeing what happens with this book in the marketplace.

And children? 'I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.