Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

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

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

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Thought is free.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Give up trying to make me give up

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.