Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.

Robert Caro

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Charles Bukowski

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Ambrose Bierce

It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.

Regis Philbin

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.

Homer

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.

Princess of Wales Diana

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Sir William Temple

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

Dolly Parton

norris didn't cry, but he was apt to puke on them, the way he had puked on homer gamache that time he had found homer sprawled in a ditch out by homeland cemetary, beaten to death with his own artificial arm.

Stephen King