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

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

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

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

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

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

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Boards don't hit back.

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

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

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

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.