The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Every life contains its own mysteries, and the biographer must respect the unknowable.

The great poems are the ones that survive their own occasions.

I’m not here to compete, I’m here to dominate.

The challenge is not just to collect data, but to make sense of it in ways that improve lives.