"Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain."

"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."

"From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance."

"The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock."

"Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it."

"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."

"And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home."

"To build a legacy, one must accept that wisdom is knowing when to speak and when to listen."