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

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

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

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

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

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

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Give up trying to make me give up

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

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

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.