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.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

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 feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

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

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

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

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.