"The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate."

“A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.”

“Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.”

“Suddenly, I found I was married to a millionaire.”

Source : "Thy Pitcher's Wife". Interview with Lillian Ross, www.newyorker.com. June 6, 2005.

“The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.”

Source : "Why David Siegel Told His Employees to Vote for Romney". Interview with Susan Berfield, www.bloomberg.com. October 11, 2012.

“Fail, it's not in my dictionary. I've got a good dictionary up there and the words 'fail' and 'failure' have been ruled out for years. I don't know what people are talking about who use that word. All I do know is temporary non-success, even if I've got to wait another 20 years for what I'm after, and I try to put that into people, no matter what their object in life.”

“In the south there's a difference between 'Naked' and 'Nekkid.' 'Naked' means you don't have any clothes on. 'Nekkid' means you don't have any clothes on and you're up to somethin'.”

“Gardening is a humbling experience.”

“When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.”