An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

The less men think, the more they talk.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

Bad things happen sometimes.

I think as human beings we contradict our feelings constantly, we make mistakes, but I think ultimately it comes down to actions to define how we feel about each other.

There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.

Be kind to thy sister. Not many may know the depths of true sisterly love.

Anybody who is rude to anyone in the service industry is automatically out.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.

When God blesses you, don't let no devil in hell move you out of your place of blessing!

I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.