If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

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

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

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

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.