Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

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

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

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.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.