We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.

Be adorable always to each other; respect is everlasting.

Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.

Perhaps no General Council has been more naturally fitted than the Vatican Council to produce a masterpiece of religious thought and literature. No assembly of men since the time of Christ has ever been so representative of Christian and national thought.

I'm a freak of neat. The kitchen has to be clean.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain you get a little out of breath but the view is much better

I definitely subscribe to the idea that 9/11, to use an overused phrase, was a wake-up call. There was a year-long national teach-in on Islam - everyone read books and suddenly talked about Islam, and that was very productive. But there's no doubt that moment has passed.

My solo novel 'Icons' was optioned by Alcon Entertainment, the folks who made the 'Beautiful Creatures' movie, and that's gotten as far as a script, but no news yet.

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type.

And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

I have a tremendous network of friends and colleagues at other firms.

I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.

I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

I love '30 Rock' because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

It's such a weird thing to try to plan a baby around a TV season. There's a three-month or four-month window in the summertime to have a baby and hang out with it a little bit before hopefully going back to work, so we were just very lucky.

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

I don't think fame is that important to me.

I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

You've got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win a prize.

If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.