A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

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

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

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

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

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

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

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

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

A lie never lives to be old.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.