No one loves an archive better than I do. I can smell a good one half-a-block away - all that brittle papyrus dust is music to my nostrils.

It is possible to have pardon without forgiveness-a murderer can be pardoned by the governor, but that does not mean the victim's family has forgiven him. And there can be forgiveness without pardon.

The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.

Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart.

It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want. This captures a lot of what Abraham Lincoln did.

Stephen A.Douglas was a risk-taker by temperament; I expect that Lincoln - Douglas debates represented another risk he just couldn't resist. He lived to regret it.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

Make America great again.

The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

Meditation is listening to the divine within

Networking is not about hunting. It is about farming. It's about cultivating relationships. Don't engage in 'premature solicitation'. You'll be a better networker if you remember that.

My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.