I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

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

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

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

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

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.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

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

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

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

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