Give up trying to make me give up

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

I am not now That which I have been.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

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

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.