If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.

Well done is better than well said.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

You can do anything you set your mind to.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like

Stop looking for a partner. Focus on your goals and rebuilding your life. The right person will eventually find their way to you.

There are many things in life I hope to experience and attend, but so many more I'm hoping that I miss.

Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!

Vengeance is a human right.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.

Inside a dark well, everyman's favourite colour is blue!