We are candles, I remember thinking, and the wind is rising.

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Live all you can it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

When most investors, including the pros, all agree on something, they're usually wrong.

I believe Satan exists for two reasons: first, the Bible says so, and second, I've done business with him.

Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.

I think we're all pretty odd.

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.