Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.

At the end, nothing will remain except the poetry of your love.

It is in his obsessions that mankind most closely resembles his machines.

There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

In moments of pain, we seek revenge.

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

When you die you forget. Death is a sleep, a forgetting. You forget about your previous lifetime. The essence of your being is the same. But at death, the personality dissolves

We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.