Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

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

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

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

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

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.

Thought is free.

Moonlight is sculpture.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Humility is attentive patience.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

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

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