virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.

a life without investigation is not worth living

this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others,

I think both Protestants and Catholics have killed the woman for the sake of the mother. (Rubem Alves, p. 201)

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And theyll tell you if you ask.

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

I'm a bit of a glutton - I eat too much of all that is good to eat.

The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

Actually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do.

If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?

I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.