What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.