Presence is more than just being there.

Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.

As you get older there shouldn't be anything you won't try. The payoff is that you open up whole new avenues that are fun. It's a misinterpretation of life to live it only in preparation for the next one. To subordinate the one you've got to an indefinite next round is foolish. It's a waste of this life not to live this life. What's next is anybody's guess.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS.