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

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

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

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Once you label me you negate me.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

Humility is attentive patience.

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

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

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

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

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.