Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

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

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

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

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

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

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

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

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.