To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

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

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

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

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

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

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.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

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

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.