The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic
I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.
