You can't have genius without patience.

Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

One must desire something to be alive.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.

Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.

If my mother hadn't thrown my football boots on the fire, I might have become as famous as Denis Compton.

Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?

Bad nights lead to better days