A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

Thought is free.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Humility is attentive patience.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

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

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment