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

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

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

A jug fills drop by drop.

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

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

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

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

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.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

An idea is salvation by imagination