Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

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

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

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

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

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

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.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Humility is attentive patience.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

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

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