I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

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

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

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