"For [a product] to surprise me, it must be satisfying expectations I didn't know I had. No focus group is going to discover those. Only a great designer can."

"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."

"Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it."

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

"ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists."

"No country can be described as free- but each has different degrees of bondage."

"It is a true saying that 'One falsehood leads easily to another'."

"Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit. Max Lucado"

"A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head."