Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.

Apple is always focused on out-innovating itself... and that is something I am very proud to be a part of.

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

We have never stayed home long enough to experience the truth about ourselves.

I'm not going to lie about it. I carry a satchel too. It's like a man purse. It's a whole thing.

I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.