Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Common sense is not so common.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

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

Freedom is from within.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

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.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Be that self which one truly is.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.