Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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

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

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

Every man's memory is his private literature.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Common sense is not so common.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.