Memory... is an internal rumour.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

Freedom lies in being bold.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

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

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.