The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

She's an array of undiscovered words, of feeling beyond my threshold. I'm just a man, trying to hold himself together in her wake.

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Everyone, both big and small, can pull their weight, and ensure that the hopes and dreams of every child become realities.

Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.

I don't have a problem removing people from around me. They could be around for a long time, and I could get comfortable or used to them, and then I can just get rid of them.

Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.

We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it

I just keep investing in the future, and I haven't reached the point where I'm not doing that.

Many of my works fall into the category of "Zeitgeist novels." Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.