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

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

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

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

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.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

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

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

Humility is attentive patience.