What a man does is the real test of what a man is.

No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.

The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

If it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.

Overall, I'm quite good with how I spend my cashola.

I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a contamination.

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

Sorry to interrupt myself, but it's the only way I stop talking.

This year - a factory of semiconductors. Next year - a factory of whole conductors!

No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.