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

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.

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

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.

Anger dulls the sharpness of mind, hardens the softness of feelings, and replaces the sweetness of the world with bitterness.

And so the result of several years of Everybody Shareskyism, other than slaughtering people, is for everybody to stand around and stare blankly at each other.

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.

there’s nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing.

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

My golf game is getting real good. Last week, I got through the windmill.