Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

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

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.