Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Life is like a 10 speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach, Or what's a heaven for ?

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.

Who goeth a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing.

The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the number of participants.

Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit. [There is no great genius without some touch of madness.]

Good salesmen and good repairmen will never go hungry.

Drop the vase and it will become a Ming of the past.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men, and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on its way out.

If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

Feminists say 60 percent of the country's wealth is in the hands of women. They're letting men hold the other 40 percent because their handbags are full.

He thought of Musashi, the Sword Saint, standing in his garden more than three hundred years ago. "What is the 'Body of a rock'?" he was asked. In answer, Musashi summoned a pupil of his and bid him kill himself by slashing his abdomen with a knife.