Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes, the special occasion is that you've got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge.
Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?
That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others
Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.
. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .
When I ask, “How are you?” that is really what I want to know. I am not asking how many items are on your to-do list, nor asking how many items are in your inbox. I want to know how your heart is doing, at this very moment. Tell me. Tell me your heart is joyous, tell me your heart is aching, tell me your heart is sad, tell me your heart craves a human touch. Examine your own heart, explore your soul, and then tell me something about your heart and your soul.
There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.
If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.