To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

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

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Freedom lies in being bold.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

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