If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.
A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
A lie never lives to be old.
Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
