I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
A good liar must have a good memory.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Common sense is not so common.
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.