As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

A society which devastates its homelands’ nature no more has the right to live in that territories!

Success is a trophy, a title, something gained, attained or retained. Fulfilment, true happiness, contentment.... bliss is the gift of the self-realised. That is the real prize.

An undisciplined mind is a wasted one, which will be reflected in the life of the one who possesses such a mind.

What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.

The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.