Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

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

Jests that give pains are not jests.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

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.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

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

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives