Real wealth is ideas plus energy.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.

Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

"The further art advances the closer it approaches science," said Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and inventor of the wheelbarrow, and other useful instruments from the speaking tube to a mechanically gyp-proof whore-house, "the further science advances the closer it approaches art."

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.