I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

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

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

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Sunlight is painting.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.