I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Complexity mumbles. Simplicity speaks

They are coming to teach us good manners!" I replied in English. "But they won't succeed, because we are gods.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

There aint a microphone brave enough to give me feedback!

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

Just pushing a button is taking a photo. Thinking, lighting, and lots of other things~that's making a photo.

My favourite road sign is 'Falling Rocks'. What exactly am I supposed to do with that information? They may as well have a sign saying "Random accidents ahead", "Life's a lottery, Be lucky."

Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.

...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'