People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

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

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

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

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

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Effective action is always unjust.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Each soul is potentially divine.