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

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

Freedom is from within.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

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

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.