Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

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

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

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

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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

It ain't over 'til it's over.

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

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

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

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.