A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.
I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.
Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within.
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
The men I find myself attracted to are the ones who don't say anything and are quite shy.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our government works for all Americans.
I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets.
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
