Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

My Google-fu is strong.

There is a tide in the affairs of women Which taken at the flood leads - God knows where.

The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.

I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after I was done with cancer that I wrote a book about it.

You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea.

I would say one of the reasons that women don't invest to the same extent that men do, is because we still think of it in some ways as a male pursuit.

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

I believe that there's something interesting about anyone and everyone - you just have to figure out what that something is.