In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
Moonlight is sculpture.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
Boards don't hit back.
We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.
