Better to have something to say than to have to say something.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently

If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .

I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?

Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.

I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

The spirit of Christmas is - and hopefully always will be - about goodwill and generosity to others and peace on earth.

Look, a lot of people don't think that the way that I live my life is a real thing, that it exists, that having a broad spectrum of sexual orientation is even possible.