Insight leads to Realisation. Realisation changes the lens, which changes the conversation. And this is the start.

By all means judge and react, but at some point afterwards be sure to reflect and switch sides. The next time you might be less quick to react.

Change happens internally. That's where books go too. Therein lies the power.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.

Meetings between Presidents, as you know, are supposed to be privileged. They're supposed to be confidential. They're supposed to allow the president and other leaders to have frank exchanges.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music.

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.