Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Sunlight is painting.

Each soul is potentially divine.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

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

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

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

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

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.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.