The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.
There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Memory... is an internal rumour.
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
