You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Sunlight is painting.

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

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

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Humility is attentive patience.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Nothing is black or white.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

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

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?

Once you label me you negate me.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

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