Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

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

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

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

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

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

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

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

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.