A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Answer a fool according to his folly.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

Mancini is lucky. He has an owner [Sheikh Mansour] who speaks little and asks only: "What do you need?"

True leadership is measured by what happens after you die.

International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.

I love men - everything about them: the way they look, the way they smell, the way they feel. I love their minds.

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.