As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

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

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

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

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.