Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

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.

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

Moonlight is sculpture.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Common sense is not so common.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.