The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.

[John D. Rockefeller] didn't care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.

The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.

Don't you have something teenagery to do -- rage against authority, roll your eyes, mooch off your parents?

I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.

Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.

I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.