I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

History, a distillation of rumour.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

I don’t run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

There is spontaneity to my work.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.