I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.
He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
The venal herd. [Lat. , Venale pecus. ]
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat. , Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur. ]
Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat. , Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. ]
A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.
I'm a great believer that saying yes is a lot more fun than saying no.
If things come up, we can say, "We're not ready for this, let's move some things around. "
Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan. ' We have a long way to go.
Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.