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

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

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

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

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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.

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

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

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

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

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

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

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.