"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."

"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."

"There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement."

"A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus."

"The distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law."

"Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off."

"It is a essential truth that fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: i will try once more tomorrow — an essential principle for the reflective life."