Your inner positive self demands that you keep surprising yourself with extraordinary achievements.

And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat" (23).

His kindness was only meant to make later torments crueler.

I always ask myself: "Did I get one percent better today?"

There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked.

Hookers in Times Square, God bless 'em, are offering a Mitt Romney Special. For an extra $20 they'll change positions.

When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be".

The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.