The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

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

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

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

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

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

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

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

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

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

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