When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

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

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

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

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.