Every life leaves behind a trail of evidence; the biographer is the detective who follows it.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

I don’t let success change me, I let it improve me.

Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.