Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

Decisions determine destiny.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.

As the eldest in the family, I'm used to making unpopular decisions.

The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen

The president [Donald Trump] said his three-part agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs.

The quality of the pass leads directly to the quality of the shot

For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.