Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

Literature is analysis after the event.

Listen Anna, if we don’t believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there’s no hope for us. We’re going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas.

As I was saying, that’s the dark secret of our time, no one mentions it, but every time one opens a door one is greeted by a shrill, desperate and inaudible scream.

Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

You cannot be a light to others or yourself, if you have dark intentions in your heart.

Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare.

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

My philosophy is "Where is it written that at 40 you give up all your toys?" If I'm still having a great time doing something, I'm going to keep on doing it.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God's goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.