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

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

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

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

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

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.