What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

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!

Thought is free.

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

I am not now That which I have been.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.