Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

The weak dread the storm, the foolish invite the storm, the wise avoid the storm, the strong battle the storm, and the great overcome the storm.

Great soul

Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.

No one can ever win by defeating someone

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

The Riddler says you make the world better one battle at a time.

Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.

Music dissolves the straight and narrow.

Nobody had faith in me when I got here except my team. That's what carried me through all the transition problems and adjustments and everything.

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.