I'll always be poor in my mind.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Common sense is not so common.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

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

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

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.