The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

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.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

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

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

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.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.