Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in East Africa... She was four feet tall and probably black..

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.

Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been.

What we preach is what we get. We are farmers sowing seed. If we are unhappy with the harvest we’re reaping, we should sow different seed. If we want different results, we preach different messages.

I love you still, Against my will.

I know that what I have done I can do again.

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas