Genius is sorrow's child.

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.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

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

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

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

Each soul is potentially divine.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

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.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

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

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

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.