Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

A jug fills drop by drop.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

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

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

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

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.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

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.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

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

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.