“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.”

“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get”

“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

“We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence…on pain of liquidation.”

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul”

“Better never than late.”

“If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.”

“If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.”

“My reputation grows with every failure.”

“The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people”

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”

“It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.”

“When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work”