"To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand."

"Even writers need relief from words."

"When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ``hush'' just once."

"Worse than a bad musician is a mercenary (musician). We need money to live but we don鈥檛 live to receive money. Besides, a pig with a gold chain on his neck always will be a pig"

"Technical term is narcissism. You can't believe everything is your fault unless you also believe you're all powerful."

"Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience."

"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them."

"It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them."

"In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress."

"Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines."

"Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."

"If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom."