Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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.
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.