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.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
Genius is sorrow's child.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
It ain't over 'til it's over.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
Nothing is black or white.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.