All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

In the end I believe the essential spirit that animates those places animates me. If that spirit is God, then I found God...If that spirit is life, then I found life...If that spirit is awe, then I found awe. Part of me suspects it's all three...all I had to do to discover that spirit and the resulting feeling of humility and appreciation was not to look or listen or taste or feel. All I had to do was remember, for what I was looking for I somehow already knew.

Bruce Feiler

I understand that finance can be very complex.

Kevin Harrington

That is her style of beauty.

George Orwell

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

Jonathan Sacks

No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis.

Theresa May

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Barry Goldwater

With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.

Orhan Pamuk

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

All heiresses are beautiful.

John Dryden

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence cynicism.

Albert Camus

Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe