Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Nothing is black or white.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
