All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

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.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

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.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

Moonlight is sculpture.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

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

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

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

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

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.