My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

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

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

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

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

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.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.