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.

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

A good liar must have a good memory.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

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

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.