Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Common sense is not so common.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Give up trying to make me give up

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

I am not now That which I have been.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.