Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

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

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.