I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person’s mind.

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.

Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head.

Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.

Art is the daughter of pleasure.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf, and a girl who became one

Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.

There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.