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

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

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

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

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

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

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

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

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

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

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

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

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.