I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

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.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

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

Jests that give pains are not jests.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Sunlight is painting.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.