The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
A lie never lives to be old.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
Comedy is acting out optimism.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Thought is free.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
Fashion changes, but style endures.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
That which costs little is less valued.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
