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.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

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.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Genius is sorrow's child.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.