Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Be that self which one truly is.

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

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

I am not now That which I have been.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.