Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

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

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

An idea is salvation by imagination

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

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

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

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

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

Courage is grace under pressure.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.