Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

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

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.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

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.

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

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

Memory... is an internal rumour.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

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

Comedy is acting out optimism.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.