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

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

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

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

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

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

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

The day of individual happiness has passed

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

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.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

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