The moment you're born you're done for.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

The moment you're born you're done for.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Women are strange and incomprehensible a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment.

Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

One of the commonest characteristics of the successful man is his idleness, his immense capacity for wasting time.

Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.

I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached dont adjust the goals adjust the action steps.

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.

Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.

A lot of cinematic influences on 'Descender' - Kubrick for sure. '2001: A Space Odyssey' is my favorite movie. It has been since I was 12. I just love that film.

For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.

My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.

They didn't know anything about the candidates and things of that sort. So they needed guidance. And that league was very instrumental in directing the people in the direction to go.

My self-worth is not linked to your cruel words and action. My self-esteem is not affected by your deliberate attempts to destroy my character. You have no power over me. You will not silence me.

I take a lean-startup approach: creating agile, interdisciplinary teams that get the minimum viable product to market as soon as possible. It's my job to be entrepreneur-in-residence, an internal change agent.

You know, I'm not sure I ever even had a blind date!

You know, I really am probably one of the sweetest, most sensitive people you'll ever meet.