Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

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

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

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

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.