Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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

Humility is attentive patience.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

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

It ain't over 'til it's over.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

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.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

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

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.