Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.

Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.

You fake something until you're good at it.

Actors should never give interviews.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work.

I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.

Don’t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew, a particle, as birds carry only drops away from water, and the wind a grain of salt.

Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful