But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

Everything she does comes from within, from some dark impulse. I guess that’s what makes her so thrilling to watch. So dangerous. Even perfect at times. But also so damned destructive.

Money holds terrible power when it is loved

Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.

Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel but on a candlestick and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

I'm not a macroeconomics person.

My cousin is an agoraphobic homosexual, which makes it kind of hard for him to come out of the closet.

Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.

I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.

In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.