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

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

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

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

Boards don't hit back.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.