I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

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.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

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

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

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

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Each soul is potentially divine.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.