There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

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

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Common sense is not so common.

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

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Once you label me you negate me.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

I am not now That which I have been.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.