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

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Genius is sorrow's child.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

The day of individual happiness has passed

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.