Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

Freedom is from within.

Humility is attentive patience.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.