With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.

Life is wasted on the living.

Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.

Society cannot but depend to a disproportionate degree on its capable few to develop and flourish.

When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard".

The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.