The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Be that self which one truly is.

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

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

My specialty is detached malevolence.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.