The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

There might come a day when you will have to fly alone. Don't be afraid. Your wings will take you to ridiculously beautiful places that you never knew existed.

...power doesn’t shift. Power is resolute. It is the mountain, not the wind. To shift so easily is to lose trust.

Somebody is always doing something that somebody else said couldn't be done.

Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.

To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.'s all grown from the inside - well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.

The New Testament states that man cannot serve two masters. He must choose one -God, and not the other - money. For what man chooses will reveal his heart.

Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

That's an astonishment that we're waiting to find out what the [Donald Trump] policy is, that was the central plank, the central rationale for his candidacy.

When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with.