Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

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

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Once you label me you negate me.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

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.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

The day of individual happiness has passed

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

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

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

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.