Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

A person preaches well that lives well.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

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

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

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

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

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

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

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.