Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

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

Genius is sorrow's child.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

Sunlight is painting.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

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

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Humility is attentive patience.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.