Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

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

My specialty is detached malevolence.

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

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

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

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

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

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

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.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.