There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
The day of individual happiness has passed
I am not now That which I have been.
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.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
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.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
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.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
