Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's...

I have a way of synthesizing. That's what I would encourage any young person to do: take in the ideas, the conflicts, and the world. Watch and listen and live before you go public.

When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

Working with Dilip Kumar sahib I observed that he was not someone who would be happy with flattery. He only liked good and honest people.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then...

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.

My life experience has made me realise what's important and what is not.

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.

Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault.

Don't worry about polls, but if you do, don't admit it.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

Extremes meet, as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

I don't bite the hand that feeds me. I'm a little smarter than that.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

It is in the interest of Americans to find out what those wanting to be president think about a wide range of challenges and what they might do about them. We should want to get their take on the...

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

I feel like I'm a real good detective. I feel like I know who's got my best interest at heart and who doesn't, and I think that probably does come along with just getting older and being around a lot...

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Don't ask questions you don't want the answers to. It's just common sense that I learned the hard way - I keep touching the fire. I'll touch it even though you told me it's hot, even though it's...