The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

I satirize at all times, and my hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer.

If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.

Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.

Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.

I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek the relationship between God and man.

I almost took the door off the car