Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools.

Just as love makes you blind so does wealth, and of the two blindnesses wealth is the worse because of the incalculable harm it is able to do to people other than yourself.

The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason

If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.

Be kind, be decent, be generous, be tolerant, compassionate, and understanding. Be fast to praise, slow to judge. Remember, we're all human, and don't cast the first stone.

Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself.

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.

The angels had guitars before they had wings.