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.

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.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

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

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Effective action is always unjust.

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

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

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

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.