If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!
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.
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
A good liar must have a good memory.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Humility is attentive patience.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Courage is grace under pressure.
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.