The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

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.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

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.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

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

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Common sense is not so common.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

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