The only thing constant is change

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Big results require big ambitions.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Change alone is unchanging.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

Why is it that when you discover you can't have something, you want it even more?

Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we think about security.

But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea.

For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.