Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

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.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

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

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

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

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

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

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

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

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

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

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others