A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
Common sense is not so common.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
That which costs little is less valued.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
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.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
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.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.