Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

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.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

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

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

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

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.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.