Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

That which costs little is less valued.

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

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Effective action is always unjust.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

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

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.