The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

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

Jests that give pains are not jests.

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.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

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

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.