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

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

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.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

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

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

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

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.