I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

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

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

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.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

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

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.