The best ideas are common property.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

We co-create when we reach out and touch souls. Like rays of light—where they converge—twice as bright.

If we lose all our sweet memories, it means we are dead even if we are alive!

It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow.

On a wing and a prayer." (After being asked how the angels make love in Milton's Paradise Lost).

We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.

I have less compassion than the average human.

The older I get, the more I look like my favorite shoes.

I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

By this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured.