“Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.”

“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”

“As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is, so economists have long been mathematicians without being aware of the fact.”

“Have more than you show,
Speak less than you know.”

“…I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.”

“Discretion of speech, is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him, with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.”

“I mean, there is a certain amount of exposition you have to have in films and how that exposition is handled tells you whether it's a good script or not, whether it's a good filmmaker or not. You know, the more exposition that can be handled without a character speaking it, the more thematic metaphors that you can do visually, to me that’s a better situation.”

“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.”

“The Western search for unifying truth did not come to an end with Christianity, any more than with the physical theories of forty years ago.”

“What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.”