Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Future strong individuals will not take on personal sacrifices, hardships and corporate crap that sidetrack them from their dreams and goals.

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

We are not in the coffee business serving people, we are in the people business serving coffee.

Who would I marry? I know, my ego. We'd make the perfect couple.

The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one.