Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

He that rises late must trot all day.

I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.