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

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

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

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

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

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

Nothing is black or white.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

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

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.