The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

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

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Give up trying to make me give up

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

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

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.