Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

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

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

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

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

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.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.