Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

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

Give up trying to make me give up

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

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

The day of individual happiness has passed

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

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 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.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

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.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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