Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

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

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

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

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

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

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

The day of individual happiness has passed

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

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