Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. ... It's a consumption issue, and we have to start thinking about how we create diets [and] exercise.

We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

...accustomed like the white blackbird to the loneliness of eccentricity yet never quite reconciled to it, they found in each other's oddness a most comforting compatibility.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

If your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately.

So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.