Politicians and children have two speeds: running and asleep.

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.

It's not worthy of human beings to give up.

If you use your will all the time, then it runs out. You deplete yourself and then, when you really need it, it's not there.

We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money

A good back makes his own holes. Anybody can run where the holes are.

The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.

One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.

Am I the greatest? I don't know. I'm the greatest that I can be.

From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle class tax cut. I never did meet any voter who thought that.