By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Humility is attentive patience.

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

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

Give up trying to make me give up

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The day of individual happiness has passed

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.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.