A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.