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

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

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

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

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

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.