I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

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.

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

I'll always be poor in my mind.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

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

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

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.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

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