None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

When you´re tired after a long day, there´s nothing like a getaway...You sit down with your book and everything changes.

Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now.

It's purely and simply the unfair media.They want the story to stay alive as long as possible.

The White House is now essentially a TV performance.

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

They make a secret pact with themelves never to think about the future.

I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.