One cannot make oneself but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.

Silence sweeter is than speech.

There never was night that had no morn.

The sheriff listened uneasily to a sound, very uncommon at elections, of the populace expressing an opinion contrary to that of the lord of the soil.

The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence—Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon.

Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.

The knowledge of the Holy One is the key to all knowledge.

All we have to do to see is open our eyes and look. As we teach what we learn, I am in essence talking to myself.

Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this country.

In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few variables - like the discount warehouses of Costco.

WOMEN WHO STEPPED UP WERE MEASURED AS CITIZENS OF THE NATION, NOT AS WOMEN...THIS WAS A PEOPLE'S WAR, AND EVERYONE WAS IN IT.

I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.

Don't forget! That is to say: remember - because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting.

We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China].

It's like deja-vu, all over again.