Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

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

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

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

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.