Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.

It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.

Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.

There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.

Hope! Of all the ills that men endure the only cheap and universal cure.

India and China have not shied away from addressing boundary questions, have wisdom to find a fair and mutually acceptable solution... We have been able to put all issues on the table.

I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.

I've found that my humor goes over big in London.

A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent... and the advance of anything known can be reached.

People want you to fail.

Solve 90% of the problem as simply as you can, and then remove the other 10% from the problem requirements.

Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.

The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.