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

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Common sense is not so common.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

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.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

That which costs little is less valued.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.