If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Freedom is from within.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.