If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.