By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

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

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

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

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

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

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.