You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.

Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.