I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

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

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

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

A good liar must have a good memory.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

An idea is salvation by imagination

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.