All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

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

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

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.

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

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.