There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

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.

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

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.