May I have a few friends and many books - both true.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Wislawa Szymborska

The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.

William Mcfee

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.

Meister Eckhart

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

Paul Ryan

Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.

Friedrich von Schiller

Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.

Jon Meacham

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree

Oscar Wilde

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.

Ty Burrell

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

Freeman Dyson

My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.

Claiborne Pell

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Edward C. Banfield